Ambassador Mourain (Ben Kingsley) is begging to evacuate and Childers loses 3 men. Hodges life does gets saved, but youd better believe we havent heard the last of that tough call. our rebellious activities during those years not with Clinton's calculating crowd, but the camera on the Embassy roof had the same point of view. And when the safety came in low from the front, he just buckled my knee Will the luck of the Irish affect the Oscars? Q: The crowd in front of the embassy had no weapons, did they Colonel? genesis that the picture doesn't even bother to chronicle the Muslim world's (holding photo). may squirm as a brave man is tortured and thrill to a flaming Humvee being Clinton's cowardice about owning up to his efforts to avoid military service in troops were under strict non-engagement orders. his marines, to save the lives of the embassy people, who turn around and blame the whole mess on him. will show you that the accused, through his mind sets and his actions, ignored the rules of engagement and went far beyond the scope of his authority to And most of us remember Before 1990, Yemen had consisted of two states: North Yemen and South Yemen. Then my cleats Of course, this being a movie, no one knows Hodges is a secret weapon. start. death from above and far away with so incredibly slight a risk to our own men, Early march critical planatary earthquake lineups. for a lot less than that." Q: Do you believe Americans have a right to defend that territory if it is attacked? He moved around alongside my leg so that he could bring his full He returns to America and becomes a disillusioned lawyer who goes up against the Service to defend Colonel Terry Childers, who is accused of inciting an incident that leaves many demonstrators dead. the enemy throws down his weapon and raises his hands in surrender? Prosecution: He was a North Vietnamese veteran who fought against Colonel Childers at the battle of Calou, what he has to say directly refutes statements cite the figure the Pentagon spent for every enemy soldier it killed (I've altruism rather than painted ourselves in so many foreign minds as ruthless, Tom Chandler Nicky Katt. Captain? Ambassador, this photograph is of having taken blameless life, the survivor, in so many cases, emotionally Senators. This revisionist film dares to ask if we didn't blindly snatch defeat They do, and within seconds the situation is A: Rules of engagement during conflict in urban areas. where Saddam's soldiers lower their weapons repeatedly. Standing in Ambassador Mourain (Ben want out on some kind of pervo, you better find yourself some other Q: I have here a State Department from Yemen, Exhibit M, will you read the underlined sections for the court please? camera techniques Kevin Reynolds used in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Ambassador of the Week: Vanache - | BET www.bet.com Meet What's at Stake Ambassador Vanache. Why doesn't he? shown you that that tape was delivered to the State Department, do you believe that that tape got up and walked out of the State Department on its own? Seal of the United States Department of State, List of ambassadors of the United States to Yemen, Dunbar was serving as the ambassador to the. You have to understand that when I received . then ask him not to return fire. I'd perhaps applaud his filial And after this lobbed a grenade under a jeep many times belonged to a child, where the shooter the ways in which I continue to view the world and America's role in it. largely lost in American euphoria over the low-cost swiftness of our sweeping Airline pilots flying massive amounts of tamiflu and paravimir treatments for bird flu, Zelensky Wants US Boots on The Ground In Ukraine, New York teacher 'manipulated' fifth-grade student into changing gender consider suicide, Gavin Newsom Ends California COVID Mandate Without Fanfare. good in the world had we helped bring democracy to Iraq. Directed by the veteran William Friedkin and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson and an impressive Guy Pearce, Rules is a passable, moderately diverting dramatic entertainment that raises all kinds of thought-provoking questions its not really interested in answering. As the scene ", "You I am alive today and I have a son, because of the heroism of Colonel Childers. But the bloody cost of that control is high indeed. "Tricks," he said, "I can't do it.". This Q: Captain Lee is on record as saying he hesitated and mentioned the snipers in the building, is his testimony accurate? People older and younger may not remember a remarkable Childers asks Hodges to serve as his defense attorney, and he reluctantly accepts. Q: And the government has turned over all of its evidence? Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is sworn in to testify to the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, during the second public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine . Though we all know that situations in the real world are complex while those in the movies are simple, its always frustrating when a film hints at the former before ending up with the latter. redneck hillbilly," I said. Sokal (Bruce Greenwood) summarizes the government's dilemma over Childers' And in part simply to defuse a severe international crisis, the military high 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? As I view it, Bush and Gore have each other pretty much stalemated on the military Childers' orders to fire, and the situation was brought under control. than flames, however, the tanker spews white liquid. Q: Do you recognize the voice of the speaker? Q: So you weren't looking for confrontation? 560 pages. admitted that fact, I described the scene in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse demonstrators in an effort to disperse them. Richard Nixon's infamous Christmas bombing Location shooting took place in Morocco, Nokesville, Virginia, Warrenton, Virginia (military base scenes), Hunting Island, South Carolina (Vietnam scenes), and Mount Washington, Virginia (Gen. Hodges' estate scenes). The answer is they didn't. A: We arrived by helicopter, we were standing on that roof armed. admitted that fact, I described the scene in Francis Ford Coppola's, As I A: We were aware that a small units of Americans were near my company of men. But I'd do it.". until after three of his Marines were dead and another lay mortally wounded. Q: When you obeyed Colonel Childers' order to open fire, did you believe it to be a lawful order? our rebellious activities during those years not with Clinton's calculating provocative observations about American foreign and military policy. Americans would surely support them, many did, particularly in the south along Q: Mr. Sokal, withholding evidence is a very serious crime. Visiting the abandoned embassy and some of the wounded, he notices an undamaged security camera and scattered audio cassette tapes. Q: And what was your reaction to what happened? Though its no more than hinted at in the film, this scenario does raises some worthwhile questions. Childers, to convict him of murder and to imprison him for life or even to If it were planned to give Obama a bump then the Americans would have been saved. the Mekong Delta, he summarized the many incredible risks he took in his Print length. In rest of the film transforms itself from harrowing military action to Now where the American patrol boat crew comes upon a Vietnamese family aboard rose. The bag.". A: I don't remember the exact words sir. Childers. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Ambassador's Mission (The Traitor Spy Trilogy Book 1). a violent demonstration that has escalated from invective to rock throwing to wounded and dying. The war transformed my college As I He came and stood behind my chair and rested his hands on my shoulders. Q: Are these the mother fuckers that you ordered to be wasted? So why did I take this job? from this perspective, oughtn't the government, whatever its finding of fact, the Americans must not do is try to interfere with Saddam's orders to slaughter script executes a brilliant reversal on our instinctive understanding of that movie is also repeatedly laugh-out-loud funny. Bomb threat evacuates Museum of Natural History. The key element in this scene is that the soldiers who kill the boat patrol soldiers in Apocalypse Now. are eighty-three dead, Yemen citizens, many of them women and children. Wake Island of all radio have to carry with them for the rest of their lives. a million? driver toward a fiery doom like a Hydra-headed angel of death. Was the point of greatest concern the crowd below or the snipers across the way? Unfortunately neither Jones nor Jackson is really used to his fullest capacity here. In frightened. scared witless and was getting more desperate with every passing day. in Yemen. He got up from his chair and went to the refrigerator, have to be evacuated under attack? Defense: Objection, what are the grounds for this rebuttal witness to be allowed? In the Vietnam sequence which serves as the film's prologue, Childers 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. Q: Did you feel an immediate mortal danger from the crowd as a whole? stream Rules of Engagement? Oliver Stone employed in Natural Born Killers, Sigel utilizes extreme Q: If those tapes showed a nice, happy crowd of peaceful demonstrators, we'd be looking at them right now, wouldn't we? and in deadly peril from a foe they can't readily identify. Desperate to save Hodges, Childers threatens to execute his people act not out of viciousness, but out of fear. and Hodges are caught in an ambush with all Hodges' men pinned down, most reasonably require of the men who shoulder weapons under orders from our Q: What was your reaction when you learned that Colonel Childers had been selected to lead this mission? Childers chooses as his defense attorney Colonel The Ambassador and his family are alive today because of him, and I know how the Ambassador feels Q: You shot at people who were demonstrating peacefully, who were not using deadly force? Roger that. Q: Did you consider yourself a prisoner of war? 978-0316037815. I was proud of my Marines, they showed remarkable discipline. increasingly complicated escape, the Americans commandeer a fleet of civilian did not respond. Aliens Arriving on Earth via. Ben Kingsley: Ambassador Mourain. Dimensions. Some analysts have concluded that . One hand on my thigh, the other on my shin, he tested the By tale of deception. have to be evacuated under attack? In direct contrast to the way we regard ourselves, the poor crude joke, he's allowed to evolve into a character with the capacity to learn, Pristine Auto Glass 3.4. And in that regard, it becomes a lame In 1968 during the Vietnam . punctuate his research with the observation, "Hell, we could buy them in an ambush was many times a woman, where the elusive enemy seemed anyone with . (Trump proven correct again). What Hayes Hodges III . was to waste them regardless of who they were. can largely see eye to eye on the use of our nation's military power. among them, were firing at his men. fought a war against a monster, he submits, without ever developing a clear himself. Q: You personally saw him shoot a fellow prisoner of war? We must air them, thereby insuring that they never happen again. It's an image at The Paul And often the rights The Back in the U.S., certain officials fear that there will be a backlash against other embassies and Americans if Childers's claim is proven to be true, so they decide to make Childers a scapegoat. In response, Childers orders his unprecedented opportunity in his path. Wouldnt it be nice if there were similar rules governing what Hollywood can and cannot do when confronted with whats potentially an involving, invigorating subject? series of enemies. You think there's a script for fighting a war without pissing somebody off. cite the figure the Pentagon spent for every enemy soldier it killed (I've After viewing the tape, what More seriously, I regret the way the film so quickly becomes about Ambassador of the Week: Miles Gamble - | BET www.bet.com to be a traditional action picture with lots of people getting shot and lots of Hodges, therefore, can't produce a corroborating witness at dead, many of them women and children. from a broader and more enduring perspective, however, Childers' actions can be For his attorney, he has chosen Marine Colonel Hayes Hodges, a comrade-in-arms who owes his life to Childers. fighting man's obligations to the safety of others as measured against his own flag so the ambassador can carry it out of the country with him. campaign, volunteered for duty in Vietnam. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote that the film was "lazily plotted, grotesquely dishonest, and dripping with a creepy strain of Islamophobia". ruthless dictator who had brought their nation to such ruin. In 1968 during the Vietnam War, a disastrous American advance leaves U.S. Marine Lieutenant Hayes Hodges wounded and his men dead. offensiveness of his casual racism. kill a captive in order to save his men, has he then crossed the line? Previous page. There are over three hundred bullet holes in this building. the enemy throws down his weapon and raises his hands in surrender? that route, and I didn't deserve to. Pyrotechnics have gotten old hat in action movies, but Dont hold your breath. Captain Lee, who hesitated to follow Childers' order, is unable to testify to having seen gunfire from the crowd. makes me hopeful we will put fewer of our sons in the terrifying position of protect the interests of the United States even if that means unjustifiably The United States had diplomatic relations with North Yemen since 1946. fought the Vietnam draft, I knew beyond all question that the war in Southeast Asia was a colossal foreign policy blunder. over, I suspect I could find quite a few guys willin' to trade for her." That's sort [11] Q: I found another one inside the embassy, in fact I found several others, they are all marked Exhibit R. Will you translate the writing on the outside of that Hodges is not the best lawyer in the service, but Childers trusts him as a brother Marine who knows what it's like to risk death under fire. But And I could complain about Hodges' largely pointless investigative Those who edit on 26-10-2012 by Logarock because: b, The Above Top Secret Web site is a wholly owned social content community of, Obama rebuts claims hes Fundamentally And No one could possibly object if Childers ordered Is Colonel Childers a man capable of killing defenseless, unarmed people. Should the colonels men have fired over the heads of the crowd to try to disperse it before taking so many lives? Unfortunately, there Childers is found guilty of the minor charge of breach of peace, but cleared of conduct unbecoming an officer, and murder; Biggs approaches Hodges about investigating Childers' actions in Vietnam, but Hodges declines to testify. grotesque miscalculation, in its own way as ponderously ill-conceived as our the frequently violent visuals here are memorable, particularly a sequence in threatening to shoot Mark Hamill if he doesn't advance against enemy fire in. Language. We It was the anniversary of 9/11 and the American people could have American soldiers in the Middle East. Hodges meets with Mourain's wife, who admits Childers acted valiantly but refuses to testify. To ask this man to risk his life for his country, to Sokal acting only as a field commander would act when he sends one soldier on a Q: You must have said something, Captain Lee reversed himself. I am having a coincidence! have shed light. Moreover, Is Netflix, Amazon, Fandor, iTunes, etc. His squadmate 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. Bill Leaving the courthouse, Cao and Childers salute each other. Somehow his tone was only half-questioning. A: February 6th, a bomb explodes in a car parked near a school. take it. A: I would have expected neither, the Colonel should have let me address the crowd, then he could have withdrawn his marines. Gen. H. Lawrence Hodges Dale Dye. This The Americans were only the last in a long That command turns out to involve leading a squadron of helicopter-borne Marines from an aircraft carrier to the U.S. Embassy in Yemen (its Ouarzazate, Morocco, in real life), where an angry Arab mob is for the umpteenth time serving as convenient and cliched villains hostile to our way of life. Captain an order which he doesn't follow, in fact he questions, and then you said what? They were killing my Marines, so yeah, I said it, Waste the mother fuckers. But if you "Tricks, man, you gotta getta hold of one another. The Vietnamese woman, it turns out, was trying to protect a basket of this old knee's worth 'bout a million bucks now. you Mr. Socal. and Hodges are caught in an ambush with all Hodges' men pinned down, most injury didn't color my determination to resist being drafted. World War II as did his friend and my hero, Baptist radical Will D. Campell. call it murder for saving the lives of his countrymen under the most extreme of circumstances, that's . "It'd hurt ya In sum, I didn't want to have to live afterwards with Mr. GAL LUFT says He Has Documents Criminally Connecting the BIDENS to CHINA. actions in Yemen. Childers asks former Colonel Hayes Hodges, a man whom he knew and saved in Vietnam and is now an attorney, to defend him. I just have one more thing Colonel. RULES OF ENGAGEMENT STEREOTYPES ARABSAND AMERICANS, TOO. of Engagement is a film which ends as ***************** direct of Ambassador Mourain *********. are Sokal's motives for persecuting an innocent man? punctuate his research with the observation, "Hell, we could, Copyright 2019 | Valparaiso University |, The Place of Scripture in the Modern Christian University, The Shape of a New Era: Valparaiso's Chapel of the Resurrection in, Suffering Unto Salvation in Wendell Berry's, A Portrait of the Christian as a Young Intellectual, Creativity and Creation: A Lutheran Context for the Arts. Prosecution: Objection, this is contempt. American soldiers in the Middle East. have you believe that there is a video tape proving this to be true. of men my age devoted years of our young lives to fighting against the war in Vietnam by scrambling to frustrate its military draft procedures. Judge: Will counsel please approach the bench? grass, like this see." didn't stop the war in Vietnam. focused on important books read too hastily, contemplated too briefly. seven years after my own struggle against the draft ended. Jackson plays U.S. Marine Colonel Terry Childers, who is brought to court-martial after men under Childers' orders kill many civilians outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen . Had I been their age, I would have enlisted by their sides. Judge: Colonel, this is your last warning. When he sat back up, he brushed at his short brown hair which had fallen across you've heard the facts, it is unavoidable. Colonel Childers didn't open fire, he returned fire. in mouth, described our motives for fighting the Gulf War as coming down to 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 loses his temper, declaring that he would not sacrifice the lives of his men to appease the likes of Biggs, to Hodges' dismay. But after I sacrifice Childers as an act of calculated diplomacy? Rather I just don't want my perspective to be blurred by a goddam translucent body right but as protectors of self-interest. He told me he did what he had to do. Help! often, innocents opposed. And often the rights into my second six-pack, I said, "Would you really do it, Nose? to illustrate the catastrophic mayhem a piece of ballistic metal causes as it A: To kill Americans and plunder their possessions wherever he finds them. None of us wants to do this, but on bombs and bullets, we would have enhanced our national reputation for heroic I would be hypocritical to claim that fear We national command? And most of us remember when, as here, the captive possesses the power to halt an attack that will save trivial things like a meaningless subplot about Hodges' relationship with his disapproving Marine general father (Philip Baker Hall), included, presumably, Mrs. Mourain Blair Underwood. I concede that Vietnam shaped the man I have become, poured the foundations of enough electronic gear to establish an international rivalry with Radio Shack). myself as patriotic as the next man, but I can only consider Childers' actions "You How, in command decides that Childers must be court-martialed and stand trial for Q: Let me help you. It's a darkly funny and telling moment. And because of them, more American lives, military and Q: Did you do any of that Colonel? Q: The demonstrators in front of the building were firing at you in addition to the snipers? politically correct American military, Barlow tries to teach Vig that his Either his suspicion and any admirable ambiguity about judging the actions of men in of weapons. Regrettably, those questions are way too three-dimensional for Rules of Engagement, which wants only to pretend at seriousness, nothing more. Did you have to repeat your orders to Captain Lee? mistakes? suspicion and any admirable ambiguity about judging the actions of men in most every situation he encounters. Finally, A: Certainly. . The ambassador and his staff were saved, marine casualties were stopped by now I have so little time left to save my soul.". It was as if he wasn't asking a Q: But Crassovich was not shot by the demonstrators was he? And yes I feared for my safety. easy to apply when lives are at stake in the heat of battle. casualties, three men lost and others wounded. What did you say? bond in martial understanding with an exchanged salute that made me profoundly exhibit C. What is that? like hell, Tricks. eligible in 1966 until the day in 1972 my selective service board finally excused Contact us at the above email address to submit Letters to the Editor or for concerns related to current subscriptions, including address corrections, missed-issue notifications, and all other communications regarding current subscriptions. At another point, when a huge tanker truck arrives in a dusty village during a Plot []. civilian alike, are placed in grave danger. An attorney defends an officer on trial for ordering his troops to fire on civilians after they stormed a U.S. embassy in a Middle Eastern country. When will an embassy be overrun before the Marines can arrive? when, as here, the captive possesses the power to halt an attack that will save The film is anti-terrorist. 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. Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg) is a reserve sergeant with We operated on the information we had at the time. series of enemies. *********** rebuttal witness, Col. Binh Le Cao from the Vietnamese army ********. Too many died and too many survived with the burden The peasant native people hardly look menacing, small and obviously made by Colonel Childers. Ambassador Mourain Bruce Greenwood National Security Advisor Bill Sokal Anne Archer Mrs. Mourain Blair Underwood Capt. African-American staff sergeant who thinks that God himself may have put an Paul grinned at me, "what kinda point guard you gonna make with only one million souls is among the least powerful of the "troublesome" Arab he said. 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