Three Kings

Three Kings was a really great movie, but I had a really hard time watching it. I don't know if that's because it is somewhat true. Desert Storm happened to long ago for me to remember and when I learned about in school, it was too new to be really extensive in history books. All I really know about it is that it was in Iraq and George Bush was president. It was meant to help Americans forget about Vietnam.

This movie, to me, educated me on what happened during this war. Why were we there? Mark Whalberg's character Troy said at one point, when he was being tortured, to a soldier of Sadaam's army, that you can't just invade a country (referencing Sadaam's take over of Kuwait). To me this is almost ironic coming from a soldier in this movie. Is that not exactly what they did to Iraq? We needed to maintain the United States as a global power, and the way this was done was by invading Iraq, with the excuse of liberating Kuwait. America used the military to take matters into their own hands and "save the world."

This movie was an amazing movie and probably my favorite of all the movies we watched this semester. It makes me think twice about what America has done in the past. I am a proud citizen, but it is clear that America needs to turn and begin to focus on problems at home instead of trying to fix the rest of the world. Every country has problems, and the Middle East definitely has more than others, but how can America expect to help other countries when we are having so many problems. America needs to learn that we don't always need to be the savior, we don't always have to save the day.