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CounterPunch: Frontline's War: Too Timid, Too Little and Too Late (3/26/08) by Ray McGovern
Calling the PBS news show's Bush's War two-parter "a nicely put-together rehash of the top players' trickery that led to the attack on Iraq, together with the power-grabbing, back-stabbing and limitless incompetence of the occupation." And yet,except for an inside-the-beltway tidbit here and there... Frontline added little to the discussion. Notably missing was any allusion to the unconscionable role the Fourth Estate adopted as indiscriminate cheerleader for the home team; nor was there any mention that the invasion was a serious violation of international law. But those omissions, I suppose, should have come as no surprise. Nor was it a surprise that any viewer hoping for insight into why Cheney and Bush were so eager to attack Iraq was left with very thin gruel.
Ultimately, McGovern deems the show "more infotainment, bereft of substantive discussion of the whys and wherefores of what in my view is the most disastrous foreign policy move in our nation's history."
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