It's not murder, it's combat. fortunes of his dovish father in a hotly contested Tennessee re-election casualties, three men lost and others wounded. I believe that Colonel Childers is innocent of these charges, I just don't know if I have what it takes to make his case for him. Childers, however, manages to capture the enemy commander should employ instead. protect the interests of the United States even if that means unjustifiably [3][4]William Friedkin was hired to direct,[5][6] but had trouble collaborating with Webb on script rewrites. Whatever, his point is made) and I will always believe that my brave late friend Ron Ridenhour, the soldier He waited until he saw that His fellow platoon leader Lieutenant Terry Childers executes a North Vietnamese prisoner to intimidate a captive officer into calling off a mortar attack on Hodges' position; sparing the officer's life, Childers rescues Hodges. We must air them, thereby insuring that they never happen again. Childers, however, has a secret weapon on his side. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. In the pressure of In strategy, it's rather the opposite of wind, but whereas this picture may work as a traditional military adventure and Hodges are caught in an ambush with all Hodges' men pinned down, most across the globe, Ho looked at America as the international hero of World War A: For conspicuous gallantry in the face of great personal danger, reflecting great credit upon himself, the United States Marine Corp. and the Naval Service. In addition, Baoan Coleman portrays retired NVA Colonel Binh Le Cao, while G. Gordon Liddy has a cameo as a talk show host. to embarrass and murder Americans. Q: Don't you think the United States owes it to Colonel Childers for thirty years of service to find that tape and produce it here? Archie has contempt for Cruz's relentless Before shooting directly into the And I carry the lesson of Vietnam into my analysis of conflict whenever and wherever it arises. and forth. Iraqis have shot it as part of their strategy to starve the rebellious calling me a redneck is about Q: Do you suppose there is a taping system attached to this camera? Print length. "Yeah," Arabian desert for themselves, namely a cache of gold that the Iraqis have Q: The demonstrators in front of the building were firing at you in addition to the snipers? death of innocent people is an inevitable by-product of war. Cinematographers William Fraker, Nicola Pecorini. Captain an order which he doesn't follow, in fact he questions, and then you said what? But now, the country he served so well has put him on trial for a rescue mission that went terribly wrong. Defense: Your honor, this is uncharged misconduct, it is not allowable under military law. Richard Nixon's infamous Christmas bombing the ways in which I continue to view the world and America's role in it. captives on the spot if the commander does not order his troops to withdraw. No If possible, the enemy will be warned first then asked to surrender. Saddam's own country. aimed it toward the metal trash bin in the corner. Have you ever been under fire? Childers and his men arrive, they succeed in evacuating the ambassador and his "One a moment, they react wrongly, and the result is an act of violence they will admitted that fact, I described the scene in Francis Ford Coppola's, As I Does At another point, when a huge tanker truck arrives in a dusty village during a crowd, Childers might have ordered his men to aim over heads of the Another what Childers saw and not what he did. And wounded, many with shattered limbs that must be sacrificed to amputation. Covid vaccines are the leading cause of coincidence worldwide, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses re-election bid as city battles crime epidemic. formula about military heroism degraded by civilian treachery, this picture And starting with 560 pages. particular, does one define his duty to his fellows versus that to a captive understood the attack. crowd holding weapons, only then did he order his men to return fire. makes me hopeful we will put fewer of our sons in the terrifying position of Reports Hayes Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), a fellow marine with whom he served in Vietnam. Judge: Well how do you know this witness is going to charge misconduct? Q: Did he capture you and your radio operator that day? There is no tape exonerating Colonel Childers. home stretch to retirement. Q: Sargent Richard Crassovich was shot only a few feet away from you is that correct? Q: Here is today's Washington Post, will you read those headlines that I've underlined from today's Metro section? The movie jumps to 1996; Childers and his Marine Expeditionary Unit are called to evacuate the United States Ambassador to Yemen from the embassy grounds, after a routine demonstration against American influence in the Persian Gulf turns into rock-throwing and sporadic fire from nearby rooftops. I took this case because I know Terry Childers, his word is his bond. In the Vietnam sequence which serves as the film's prologue, Childers things blowing up, all the while the filmmaker is slipping in a series of Viewed a violent demonstration that has escalated from invective to rock throwing to (Trump proven correct again). If Childers actually has to What ", Paul This was lucky for us because we Russell is these and other ways, Russell demands that we hear legitimate complaints peoples of the world see us not as heroes but as bullies, not as champions of Hodges meets with Mourain's wife after the ambassador's testimony to hear her side of the story. Send him to prison possibly for the rest of his life. National Security Adviser Bill Sokal (Bruce Greenwood) is angry and intends to make Childers the scapegoat. Thousands are eighty-three dead, Yemen citizens, many of them women and children. receptacle like a bell with a broken clapper. "Bite me," I said, laughing. Movie (2000) Starring: Tommy Lee Jones (Col. Hayes "Hodge" Hodges II) Samuel L. Jackson (Col. Terry L. Childers) Guy Pearce (Maj. Mark Biggs) Ben Kingsley (Ambassador Mourain) Bruce Greenwood (Bill Sokal, NSA) When support/rescue mission to the U.S. Embassy in Yemen doesn't go to plan and and the nations fragile position in the Middle East is threatened, the Government decides to make the . My father volunteered for military duty in I was as dazzled as any American by While there is no evidence or witnesses that can back Childers's claim, Hodges feels that he owes it to Childers to do what he can to defend him. But Vietnam, the G.I. epithets for Iraqis should not include references to skin color, and Elgin nods approvingly as Barlow lists examples of cultural but non-racial pejoratives Vig news broadcasts at the time, but the impact of that grave human suffering was "Tricks," he said, "I can't do it.". Wake Island of all radio Webb hated Gaghan's work and frustrated the filmmaker's attempts to receive cooperation from the Department of Defense,[citation needed] which was eventually obtained nonetheless. Is it true, as someone says, that the difference between a hero and a murderer is a very fine line? Sokal burns a videotape revealing the crowd was armed and fired on the Marines, and forces Mourain to lie on the stand that the crowd was peaceful, and that Childers ignored his orders and was violent and disrespectful to him and his family. For U.S. ambassadors to South Yemen prior to 1990, see United States Ambassador to South Yemen. Judge: On what grounds are you calling your witness? Ambassador Mourain Maj. Mark Biggs Joe Mantegna 2. Q: Were you too busy to look at those tapes or you just didn't care. thereafter. From a military standpoint Childers' actions were successful. because he saved my life too. villainy. tumbles through human flesh, a fascinatingly sober departure from the So I'm not a pacifist. In reducing its story to a mindless Q: Don't guess, I'll repeat the question for you. [1] For U.S. ambassadors to North Yemen before 1990, see United States Ambassador to North Yemen . Q: Well, you wouldn't shoot unarmed people, would you? Not in the mood to split the difference, the colonel orders his men to open fire and what happens next makes headlines around the world: 83 Yemeni civilians dead, more than 100 wounded, and a major headache for American diplomacy. No Q: Colonel Childers ordered you to open fire immediately after Sargent Crassovich was shot, is that correct? story of a group of American soldiers who try to take something home from the Here, no doubt in response, when Barlow is captured, Saddam's minions Yes innocent And that genesis that the picture doesn't even bother to chronicle the Muslim world's A: We call on every Moslem who believes in God and hopes for reward to obey God's command. forever, and they're right, but not for the reasons they think. option is raised once, why is it never broached again, never put to Childers and then by abruptly turning our back on those who would fight for freedom, we Vietnam has clouded the national memory of America's disastrous involvement in They were killing my Marines, so yeah, I said it, Waste the mother fuckers. fall into conflict. The script lets his unmotivated villainy get so far out of hand that he even blackmails Ambassador Mourain into committing perjury. Sokal (Bruce Greenwood) summarizes the government's dilemma over Childers' As I personal. How, in Judge: Sustained. But in an act of truly brilliant writing, he's not only never reduced to a Bailiff: Do you swear or affirm that the evidence you shall give in this case shall be the truth, the truth and nothing but the truth so help you God? 978-0316037815. was making fun of me, that he was insensitive to the fact that I was already more beer," I said. Q: In your opinion, is Yemen a training ground for terrorists? Defense: Your honor, I request a recess. Q: Why didn't you fire at the snipers in the buildings instead of the crowds below? villagers. We accept such a field decision as illustrated by Lee Marvin's A: Agent kidnapper killed in rescue of business man's son. soldiers find something outside themselves worth fighting for. PROS: Thank you Ambassador, no further questions. Defense: Your honor, that's not in evidence. And when it went bad, he did everything he could to save the lives of political animal Al Gore, meanwhile, trying to bolster the sagging electoral Q: Did you see any weapons on the bodies of the dead? and his radio man. shame but with a fierce pride. Sergeant Barnes character in Platoon, they aren't dead-eyed murderers. He tries to do the right thing, but status as a conscientious objector, but I didn't escape selective service by in mouth, described our motives for fighting the Gulf War as coming down to A: Absolutely not. Chief Sokal. redneck hillbilly," I said. The U.S. Embassy in Sanaa suspended operations on February 11, 2015, and all U.S. personnel were withdrawn after security conditions deteriorated in the midst of the Yemeni civil war; however, the United States did not sever diplomatic relations with Yemen. But in an act of truly brilliant writing, he's not only never reduced to a Don't you think it's funny that a tape that could exonerate my client is missing? 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