What is there to say? It has lost nothing in close to forty years since I first saw it.
There are several supplements. One disc featured Richard Clark and Michael Sheehan in a discussion of the US, al Qaeda, and the early phase of Iraq.
It was interesting to listen to their analysis which insisted on the idea that the key to winning against terrorism was to have a sustainable political strategy. They saw the reason the French lost was because the French political position in Algeria was unsustainable.
While Clark and Sheehan were pretty careful about their pronouncements and they sounded reasonable enough---it suddenly struck me that they didn't see the most obvious point of all. There is no such thing as a sustainable political strategy for some one else's country.
There was no such thing as a sustainable French political strategy for Algeria because it was Algeria and not France. But we all know Bush and the US Right are much smarter than the French.
It was amazing to listen to Clark and Sheehan discuss the various scenes and the relevance of these to current events and still not see the most obvious lesson of all.
CG