An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th

I could not disagree more with the reviewer who calls this excellent, must-watch documentary “surface level and scattershot.”

Pretty surface level and scattershot. Informative in spots, but constantly exposes its liberalism. People talk about how they expected it to be Muslims, how shocked they were when Tim looked like a ‘normal’ (white) child, but the film will always glance at the harder topics like race before scrambling away. It doesn’t quite connect the specific dots of how this led to the public extremism of today because it would require a sterner eye on the government and Clinton. Someone literally says Tim being accepted into the Berets not only would’ve stopped the bombings from ever happening but that he would be a ‘great killing machine for the United States’. But the military isn’t a problem? Not going to take a deeper look there? No, you have fo both sides of, gesture at ‘extremism’ and ‘the country dividing itself’ and ‘polarization’. It pulls back from saying anything truly real. Of course it does. Bill Clinton is a talking head. He wonders if he met Tim in his youth if he could’ve saved him. That’s really all you need to know.