Honest HOPE

The first videos I watched were both of the parts to Bush's War, and I noted right off the back the confused tone to the videos. It seemed like the government officials only thought they knew what they were doing, but they could not really help the screams of help coming from the citizens. The thing that stood out to me the most in the videos was that all of the reasons that the government officials were using to blame Iraq and Saddam Hussein seemed like they had no basis, and no evidence. The part that this was most evident was when the government officials wer sure that they had killed Husain, but he showed up on TV a few days later. This was probably, because when I started watching the video, I already had this opinion of how stupid and horrible those eight years were. I was more eager to know what Obama's plans were for us in Afghanistan.
Okay, now it comes to Obama's War. Wow. I cannot begin to count howmany times I found similarities with the Vietnam War. I felt that Obama's War was honest when it came to saying that there is a change that we will lose, but yet it had an air of hope. It had an air of honesty, lacking deception. The line at the beginning of the video that Obama says where he leaves his audience hanging about what we are supposed to do in Afghanistan shows that the government still is somewhat lost about how they are going to go about everything, but that their goal of helping the civilians is a goal that they want to do everything to reach. This is where I began noticing similarities between the Vietnam War and Obama's War. The documentary stressed that the soldiers were not there to fight the Taliban, but instead to protect the civilians, sort of like Vietnam, except with Obama's War. The documentary stressed that the soldiers were not there to fight the Taliban, but instead to protect the civilians, sort of like Vietnam, except with Obama's War, the soldiers actually looked like they cared about the people, and were introducing themselves and giving them advice. The part that stood out to me the most was the speech made at 2:20 by the general. Most war videos have speeches by generals who talk about American pride, and killing the enemy, and revenge. But this one was the complete opposite. It was about making a difference, and dying for a cause.
That is when I first realized what this video was about. Hope. Not the kind of hope that ends up making you feeling like a failure, but the kind of hope that is realistic.