Zero Dark Thirty is a 2012 American war thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. Billed as “the story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man”, the film dramatizes the decade-long manhunt for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden …

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Zero Dark Thirty has received some criticism for significant historical inaccuracy. Former assistant secretary of Defense Graham T. Allison has opined that the film is inaccurate in three important regards: the overstatement of the positive role of enhanced interrogation methods, the understatement of the role of the Obama administration, and the portrayal of the efforts as being driven by one agent battling against the CIA “system”. …

For a Hollywood movie, that’s not bad.

I did not find it at all pro-torture. The message I took away was that to defend the USA American troops should be brought home. To ensure homeland security troops should be in the homeland.

Taking action in Islamic nations inspires more terrorists than it defeats.

If they’d shut down the embassies in Yemen, Egypt and Libya, for example, those big targets would not have been attacked.

In the age of the internet, why do diplomats need to live in those expensive fortresses?