" The War Made easy" A MUST SEE FILM FOR EVERY AMERICAN

In the film “The war made easy” the director emphasizes on addressing the media’s prominent role in executing foreign policy through the relationship between media coverage and Top U.S officials. Furthermore explaining through a grand variety of sources how such democratic rhetoric has managed to enforce our societies general perceptions of war. As WWI came to an end U.S government officials sought for successful strategies justifying war by withholding information from the public in order of protecting their diplomatic alliances. In subsequent all this use of media enabled the people to not only encourage a war agenda but believe the mere illusion that they played no major role in “formulating” foreign policy, so in other words the president was no longer a channel of administrative policies but a prominent figure in determining what is best for the people.

            Moreover, What I found very interesting was how the director successfully compares the dynamic between each war, the correlation between the media’s role of retaining a constant storyline in order of maintaining encouragement for the war, which in turn leaving society as a subject submitted to propaganda. Although the documentary sets time in the Vietnam War we need to comprehend that just as the documentary conveys, we still remain exposed to similar propagandistic strategies and political jargon, As years pass by we have become quite numb to the idea of even questioning if what is seen on TV is true. The segment portraying the paradox of war was quite interesting as well since it exposes a terminology that is constantly aggressively conveyed as the American theology, and that is “to spread freedom and democracy”

            Although through history it is quite evident that none of the U.S interventions are based on such rhetoric, conversely most of these particular phrases are used in order of increasing economical profit or protecting U.S political interests and doing no other but placing a veil on their people by retaining the idea of selflessness and serving others. War is not only portrayed as an act of kindness and patriotism but it has been generated to become an embodiment of morality, and this in particular is what I find quite disturbing. 

I don’t know about you but I find the leftist/ liberal individuals much more ethical than the so-called “objective” pro-war individuals. Furthermore, how can Arnett be portrayed as unpatriotic when he was actually comparing both sides and enabling to bring upon objective news?, Or Donahue’s attempts of challenging the U.S officials by questioning the perpetual promotion of war seen as unpatriotic? Shouldn’t it be the other war around?  In conclusion this film was an eye-opener on a variety of subjects but specifically on the U.S government political agenda.