Syriana: not a happy ending

Wasim (Actor Mazhar Munir) decides to blow himself up in the not-so-happy ending of the controversial movie Syriana.

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[Paktu196]

The movie is not pointing the fingers at anyone. It's showing how easily any human is corrupted.

[rji]

One of the best movie scenes ever.

[icemachine79]

@flagwatch One of the major problems is looking at states as static concepts. They're not. None are inherently good or evil nor do they remain so due to any single decision made. As long as we're talking about actions positive or negative taken as though an entire nation's population was completely behind them we'll never get anywhere. That train of though is just a relic of a much less well-connected era and lacks the nuance we need to find realistic solutions to conflicts.

[locknezmunster]

I don't get this movie. Who got the blame afterall? Was Matt Damon corrupted as well? Was the imam part of some C.I.A. scheme? Was George Clooney trying to warn the would be Emir?

This movie was the most difficult for me to understand. Usually I get them, but not this one.

[MrGaluska]

The parts in the movie where the two kids are 'educated' by their master are really good. I mean it really shows how a charismatic leader can corrupt desperate youngsters.

[flagwatch]

@lonewulf44

No. You didn't provide me any sources for this "conflict-ending" model.

The US hasn't started viewing itself as "police," nor did they just recently start intervening in other countries.

I feel like you don't know much of the history of US involvement in foreign conflicts and the activities of the CIA, but I suspect if you did, it wouldn't matter. You believe in the inherent goodness of the US, and so there's not much point asking you to have a more critical or objective view.

[lonewulf44]

@flagwatch

 The last decade is essentially an aberration , or more specifically part of a gradual blurring of national interest and political bungling after the collapse of the Soviets and leaving a hole for the MIC to fill. Add up all the WORST of the US mistakes and so called 'atrocities' and weigh that against all the BEST of their accomplishments, advantages, umbrella protection, standard of living, political examples, and economic models and you will find your comments more than petty

[lonewulf44]

@flagwatch Do you have any idea how many conflicts, civil wars, broader wars, regional wars, and even world wars the US has ended before they began? I probably hate the fact that the US has become the worlds police more than you, but for very different reasons. By the sheer presence of a Superpower upholding national and global trade interest, the worlds economy and population has received the greatest reprieve from war and conflict every known. And that's just 1 example.

[flagwatch]

@lonewulf44

The past decade? The last decade is not some aberration. Do you have any idea how many coups and military atrocities the US funded or approved just during the Cold War, for example? It's not a series of mistakes. Read _Killing Hope_.

[aldaloo3]

@GodlessXVIII yeah because of that the oil price went up $0.1 .

[GodlessXVIII]

Poor, poor oil supertanker?

[polufhmos]

@TheAmerican732 Nice joke.