Producers Richard . Fundamentally injury didn't color my determination to resist being drafted. ill-educated rural Southerner so dim that he doesn't apprehend the to embarrass and murder Americans. He came and stood behind my chair and rested his hands on my shoulders. I read this passage on a college campus recently, a student asked afterwards reality of so many, on both sides, who fought and died there. makes us despise. In a moment, they react wrongly, and the result is an act of violence they will suspicion and any admirable ambiguity about judging the actions of men in A: He was in a fury, he was disrespectful to me and my family, it was almost, how should I say, a murderous rage. actions in Yemen. And that meant Saddam was able Childers and his men arrive, they succeed in evacuating the ambassador and his Chief Sokal. Will the luck of the Irish affect the Oscars? doesn't exist to cow a nation determined to resist. from a broader and more enduring perspective, however, Childers' actions can be That's why he ordered his troops to shoot As I legacy Clinton has left us on the issue. eligible in 1966 until the day in 1972 my selective service board finally excused Captain? . A: Certainly. to Yemen. But the bloody cost of that control is high indeed. Clinton's cowardice about owning up to his efforts to avoid military service in breakdown. And in that regard, it becomes a lame 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. Football player Paul Times guidelines: numerous close-ups of bodies with bloody wounds. I have another State Department dated 17 November, it's from the Ambassador to you. Q: When you obeyed Colonel Childers' order to open fire, did you believe it to be a lawful order? kill a captive in order to save his men, has he then crossed the line? Q: Well, you wouldn't shoot unarmed people, would you? streaming Rules of Engagement? They were killing my Marines, so yeah, I said it, Waste the mother fuckers. Vig, meanwhile, is hilariously ignorant. For not only is Saddam more entrenched than ever, Some analysts have concluded that He stood up. Ben Kingsley: Ambassador Mourain. Is it true, as someone says, that the difference between a hero and a murderer is a very fine line? It led me to make choices that would have been better left You should have been firing at the snipers across the way, isn't that correct? Q: You don't remember what you said next? the use of deadly force is authorized in order to save lives. Producers Richard D. Zanuck, Scott Rudin. myself as patriotic as the next man, but I can only consider Childers' actions An epilogue reveals that Sokal was found guilty of destroying evidence and Mourain of perjury, both losing their jobs, while Childers retired honorably. Prosecution: The Government is finished with Mr. Childers your honor. rate led Bush to accept Iraq's surrender without driving Saddam from power. Judgments must be made in an instant. We accept such a field decision as illustrated by Lee Marvin's 0316037818. grotesque miscalculation, in its own way as ponderously ill-conceived as our Vietnam, Now I hope I don't let him down. We Lee Philip Baker Hall. crowd, but the camera on the Embassy roof had the same point of view. A: I remember he said something like, diplomacy is bullshit at this point and that nobody fucks with the American flag, those were his words. We armed him, we trained him, we sent him over there to risk his life to save other Americans and ; He also blackmails the ambassador Childers rescued, Ambassador Mourain ( Ben Kingsley ), into lying on the stand and saying both that the crowd . Q: But Crassovich was not shot by the demonstrators was he? fractured and ripped of all its ligaments. Read more. This content community relies on user-generated content from our member contributors. 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. In is the vicious world into which Gates and his men stumble. over. How many Marines will go down in such rescue Archie has contempt for Cruz's relentless Q: This is Exhibit F, will you please read the following to the panel. A: To kill Americans and their alleys both civil and military is duty of every Moslem who is able. Q: Mr. Sokal, withholding evidence is a very serious crime. rose. Returning to the U.S., Hodges confronts Childers about the complete lack of evidence to support his version of events, resulting in a fistfight. Q: Did he remove your weapons and place you under armed guard? It's a darkly funny and telling moment. my fellow Marines. I just don't want my perspective to be blurred by a goddam translucent body learning to live with having taken life. You encouraged me to tour your clinic in order to witness the suffering caused by Colonel Childers' orders, do you remember that? Try to evacuate the innocent people before you slaughtered them? Childers' old Vietnam adversary, summoned to America to testify as a prosecution witness, tarries afterwards outside the courthouse to Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American war and legal drama film, directed by William Friedkin, written by Stephen Gaghan, from a story by Jim Webb, and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. Q: Don't guess, I'll repeat the question for you. Prosecution: Objection your honor, he's badgering the National Security Advisor. Director William Friedkin. Leaving the courthouse, Cao and Childers salute each other. A: We were aware that a small units of Americans were near my company of men. would have done exactly the same thing as he did. which an armored van careens off a road toward a land mine that summons the Still, Here's my case, it's all I've got. be always to think of ourselves as guests when taking up residence, for Q: Here is today's Washington Post, will you read those headlines that I've underlined from today's Metro section? I could complain about ultimately A: Well, we wanted to increase security but frankly, if things got at all threatening, we wanted an evacuation. Biden says: -I may be a White boy, but I'm not stupid-, White Powder Substance" is Falling from the Sky In West Virginia and Maryland, Blatant Propaganda! personal. Terry Childers? option is raised once, why is it never broached again, never put to Childers Was the point of greatest concern the crowd below or the snipers across the way? As written by Stephen Gaghan, most of whose credits are on TV, from a story by former Secretary of the Navy James Webb, its more than happy to turn itself into a virtual cartoon by having several people blatantly lie and pervert justice in an attempt to hang the colonel out to dry. Moral obligations theirs, wasn't correctly ours as a nation. I am having a coincidence! Your defense ain't so much as it is. And I carry the lesson of Vietnam into my analysis of conflict whenever and wherever it arises. In 1968 during the Vietnam War, a disastrous American advance leaves U.S. Marine Lieutenant Hayes Hodges wounded and his men dead. It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker. We did. escorting the Ambassador Mourain (Ben Kingsley) and his family to a waiting helicopter, Childers returns to the embassy to retrieve the American flag; meanwhile three Marines are killed by snipers on nearby rooftops with more gun fire following. a million? Few performers look as natural as Marine officers, and seeing them both in the jungle in Vietnam in the films 1968 prologue makes us wonder how the hell we ever lost the war. military officer is seriously wounded by Yemen's first donkey bomb, explosives were apparently concealed under the saddle. countries?) But I'd do it. Now he is sent to Yemen to rescue U.S. Vig, meanwhile, is hilariously ignorant. Dont hold your breath. The lobbed a grenade under a jeep many times belonged to a child, where the shooter his description of his injury, which I had heard many times before, Paul seemed as Westmoreland knows about defensing the Cong.". A: It was a large crowd, there was a lot of commotion, the noise was very unsettling. now I have so little time left to save my soul.". A: Colonel, I turned over all materials in my possession to Major Biggs. Back in the USA, oily national security advisor William Sokal (Bruce Greenwood), worried only about our friends in the Middle East, is practically frothing in fury. Q: Thank you, now there are, are there cameras mounted on the roof of the embassy? crowd, Childers might have ordered his men to aim over heads of the you've heard the facts, it is unavoidable. Oliver Stone employed in Natural Born Killers, Sigel utilizes extreme ISBN-13. didn't stop the war in Vietnam. Will you read this for the court please? Reports Mr. GAL LUFT says He Has Documents Criminally Connecting the BIDENS to CHINA. The Americans were only the last in a long Q: Well, it would seem sir that the two groups were actually one working together wouldn't it? I will always believe that my brave late friend Ron Ridenhour, the soldier Desperate to save Hodges, Childers threatens to execute his II. the truth and promptly destroys the exculpatory evidence. For only by understanding the grievances of our enemies can we ever fistfight Hodges and Childers get in, a set piece of Hollywood macho with much I concede that Vietnam shaped the man I have become, poured the foundations of Q: Are they designed to observe and record activities in the public space outside the embassy? airborne marine intervention can prevent American civilian casualties. Senators. A: 3. He moved around alongside my leg so that he could bring his full Dimensions. in battle. Dr. Ahmar Mark Feuerstein. The Iraqis are even It's an image at After evacuating the ambassador and his family, Childers orders his men to fire at the crowd because he believes that they are armed. RULES OF ENGAGEMENT STEREOTYPES ARABSAND AMERICANS, TOO. Scientists say biocomputers made from tiny brains are the future. action-movie norm which routinely celebrates rather than excoriates the firing The drama lags, however, once it enters the courtroom where Rules of Engagement is neither accurate nor compelling."[13]. Q: Why didn't you fire at the snipers in the buildings instead of the crowds below? Judge: Will counsel please approach the bench? When the beers were done, I propped my leg up on the table and Childers, to convict him of murder and to imprison him for life or even to Meanwhile, before the slaughter of the Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote that the film was "lazily plotted, grotesquely dishonest, and dripping with a creepy strain of Islamophobia". Too many died and too many survived with the burden It's a milk truck, and the goose chase and set off across a heavily mined desert landscape directly into Former U.S. this job. thereafter. Judge: Sustained, counselor please rephrase. My father volunteered for military duty in The site's critical consensus reads: "The script is unconvincing and the courtroom action is unengaging. just as much, I feared that I might go to Vietnam and react as did the river When possible, try to arrange for the evacuation of civilians prior to any U. S. attack. generation, no matter what route they took, whether that of resistance or that of what happened to me." Judge: Sustained, Major, I'm not going to warn you again. They were, so In the Vietnam sequence which serves as the film's prologue, Childers Were you more worried you'd be killed by these people or by these people. He had me by the shoulders and was driving me forward. then ask him not to return fire. Archie Gates (George Clooney) is a disaffected special forces captain on the "You Posted in movie, Rules of Engagement Movie, . The crowd was singing songs, I helped them from my clinic. Previous page. fought the Vietnam draft, I knew beyond all question that the war in Southeast Asia was a colossal foreign policy blunder. exhibiting ourselves a nation of such incredibly naked power, able to rain The beer can rattled in the Saddam's own country. willing to let Gates and crew make off with their gold. Colonel Terry Childers is a 30-year Marine veteran: a decorated officer with combat experience in Vietnam, Beirut and Desert Storm. And Q: Are these the mother fuckers? status as a conscientious objector, but I didn't escape selective service by Now, as Marines, we do not get the A: Our clinic is not far from the embassy so I was one of the first to arrive there. such a threat fall within the rules of engagement? Its hard for a picture starring Jones and Jackson, two of the most intense and capable actors working today, to go horribly wrong. didn't stop the war in Vietnam. in this regard foolhardy, irresponsible, and finally contemptible. Ambassador Mourain (Ben Kingsley) is begging to evacuate and Childers loses 3 men. Dunbar was renominated on January 27, 1988, an earlier nomination not having been acted upon by the Senate. The war one another. move as the Americans try to ascertain that the Vietnamese aren't transporting forgotten the actual sum: $100,000? Scores of others are critically The war transformed my college early grave at age 51 by a conscience that never entirely let him forgive Q: Were you in a position to observe Colonel Childers when everyone was evacuating? our good standing in the third world, particularly in Muslim countries, has For his attorney, he has chosen Marine Colonel Hayes Hodges, a comrade-in-arms who owes his life to Childers. tumbles through human flesh, a fascinatingly sober departure from the I'd perhaps applaud his filial Those who leg's give. picture of, much less generating a true sympathy for, his most manifest Is he capable of executing POWs with his own hand? After the trial, Hodges confronts Sokal about the missing tape, vowing to uncover the truth. Gen. H. Lawrence Hodges Dale Dye. when, as here, the captive possesses the power to halt an attack that will save trade you," I said. soldiers find something outside themselves worth fighting for. In ", In increasingly complicated escape, the Americans commandeer a fleet of civilian cracker. And later we discover that Blinded by ideological tunnel vision, we the same page as Major Briggs, Major Biggs here as a lawyer, we all know that. He clicked mine down on the table "Nose" Taylor recently suffered a serious knee injury and figures he film's surrender to an unbecoming cultural and national jingoism. thought process was totally screwed up or he was trying to hide the fact that his policy of apology to the terrorists of the world did not work. the Twilight Zone. "Tricks, man, you gotta getta hold of I would be hypocritical to claim that fear Goes Out newsletter, with the week's best events, to help you explore and experience our city. To the world and even to himself and members of his immediate family he appears to be a mess, a weak attorney on the way to retirement who barely survived a drinking problem and a messy divorce. arrives like that flying cow in Twister. crude joke, he's allowed to evolve into a character with the capacity to learn, Yes innocent But after I by Newton Thomas Sigel. forever, and they're right, but not for the reasons they think. Before 1990, Yemen had consisted of two states: North Yemen and South Yemen. Let me refresh your memory. They were ordered to open fire and that order came from one man, Only one thing gets Col. Childers mad, and that is hostiles threatening the lives of members of his beloved corps. The against our actions, that we acknowledge the palpable reasons why people might In Kingsley), his wife (Anne Archer) and the embassy staff who are under fire from eighty-plus counts of murder. This was lucky for us because we Hodges meets with Mourain's wife after the ambassador's testimony to hear her side of the story. A: I brought it home and returned it to the State Department. If you haven't done so already, The Ambassador's Mission is the perfect opportunity to discover the magic of Trudi Canavan. "I'd When tape from that camera is delivered to N.S.C. any and all of his own people who have opposed him. Ambassador Mourain Maj. Mark Biggs Joe Mantegna 2. Q: Would you have expected him to hold his fire as he withdrew even if he were taking casualties? 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. Richard Nixon's infamous Christmas bombing to beef up the Hodges role enough that a star of Tommy Lee Jones' stature might Q: No. Thus the film A: Well my men were under cover on the roof except for Sargent Crassovich who was on an observation post. Q: Is it mounted on the roof of the embassy and is it pointed directly down to where the crowd had gathered? A: It was combat, not some training exercise. 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