Most of the directors interviewed seemed eerily willing to admit certain failures and how things had shifted away from what they wanted.At the end several directors admitted Israel was in a far more insecure position, one agreed it was fulfilling a "worst case" prediction as an "occupation state".
Not common in most western intelligence agencies according to the docs I've seen.
Bibi apparently refuses to watch the film (which may actually mean that he refuses to acknowledge having watched it). Par for the course.
If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain (attributed)
Late commer
I finally had a chance to watch it tonight as my wife, who generally controls the TV, was out for the night.
First, I would say that every 2LT ought to watch it for no other reason than to see how sometimes the military and security forces have to find solutions without clear guidance from the politicians - and those choices can have long range ramifications.
Second, I was reminded at the end of the documentary of one of the culminating lines of the first "War Games". It created a feeling that the War on Terrorism is a lot like Global Thermal Nuclear War - "the only winning move is ... not to play".
"I can change almost anything ... but I can't change human nature."
Jon Osterman/Dr. Manhattan
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