Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on April 2012

Italian-made, mostly English docu-rant charges that the United States is behaving like a superpower and maintaining hundreds of military bases in dozens of countries around the world, what their public purpose is, and their “hidden agenda.” It raises a few interesting questions, like do the bases actually maintain the peace or, as with Osama Bin Laden, inspire war? But mostly it’s Italians and Japanese complaining. Note: this reviewer was once briefly in the military and stationed overseas, and I wouldn’t want me as a neighbor either. So I empathize. Maybe they’ll be happier with the Chinese.