military, responsible for an estimated 1,700 raids and counting.Ĭelebrated in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death while remaining unchecked and mysterious, JSOC strikes in nations such as Yemen and Somalia, where no war has been officially declared. But after an Afghani witness swears he saw American soldiers digging bullets out of dead bodies with knives, Scahill comes to discover that the Gardez attack is just part of a much larger war being carried out in secret by JSOC, the most covert unit in the U.S.
That one such assault claims the lives of pregnant women in Gardez is shocking enough. military raids that fly under the radar of embedded journalists and even NATO. The film begins in Afghanistan, with Scahill’s investigation of U.S. Scahill is no Redford or Hoffman, but one follows his train of thought and ultimately fears for his safety. This isn’t to say that “Dirty Wars” is fun by any stretch, but that it takes pains to make the political personal, forging the viewer’s identification with Scahill by making persistent use of his voiceover narration and keeping him oncamera throughout.
Doggedly questioning the logic and morality of waging a war with no accountability and no end in sight, Rowley and Scahill are shrewd enough to recognize that one of the strongest weapons in their own arsenal is entertainment.
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