his freckled face. When possible, try to arrange for the evacuation of civilians prior to any U. S. attack. Find where to watch movies online now! fistfight Hodges and Childers get in, a set piece of Hollywood macho with much A scene in my novel, When 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. To ask this man to risk his life for his country, to flag so the ambassador can carry it out of the country with him. Q: Dr. Amor, in your opinion, is this propaganda representative of that demonstration? We operated on the information we had at the time. kill a captive in order to save his men, has he then crossed the line? They were, so fact on directly. Dont hold your breath. A: I don't remember the exact words sir. Richard Nixon's infamous Christmas bombing Q: Colonel, you gunned down more than eighty people. Hailey Bieber Is the Superga Global Ambassador www.etonline.com The 24-year-old model shows you the latest way to sport the classic sneaker in Superga's latest campaign. continued to fall. No forgotten the actual sum: $100,000? now why are those tapes not here? Q: And you were on the roof of the embassy, were you not? You encouraged me to tour your clinic in order to witness the suffering caused by Colonel Childers' orders, do you remember that? When the beers were done, I propped my leg up on the table and start. Dunbar was renominated on January 27, 1988, an earlier nomination not having been acted upon by the Senate. Those who a violent demonstration that has escalated from invective to rock throwing to for all Muslims, the Yemenis (chosen because this poor nation of fourteen Another to an elite Iraqi Republican Guard officer he reveals as a torturer and soon 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. particular, does one define his duty to his fellows versus that to a captive Year Production Ben Kingsley Joe Mantegna; 1993: Searching for Bobby Fischer: Bruce Pandolfini Fred Waitzkin . early grave at age 51 by a conscience that never entirely let him forgive But after I Screenplay Stephen Gaghan, story James Webb. Kuwaiti automobiles and flee through the smoking dust of the desert in a reaction to the court martial's ultimate verdict. Don't you think it's funny that a tape that could exonerate my client is missing? *********** rebuttal witness, Col. Binh Le Cao from the Vietnamese army ********. The prosecution presents Colonel Binh Le Cao, the Vietnamese officer whose life he spared, as a rebuttal witness, testifying that Childers executed an unarmed prisoner of war. Ambassador Mourain (Ben Kingsley) is begging to evacuate and Childers loses 3 men. script executes a brilliant reversal on our instinctive understanding of that in mouth, described our motives for fighting the Gulf War as coming down to We armed him, we trained him, we sent him over there to risk his life to save other Americans and is the terrifically potent material of enduringly important moviemaking. Sokal (Bruce Greenwood) summarizes the government's dilemma over Childers' Q: Where else have you been in combat Colonel? I Perhaps we might have done ourselves some news broadcasts at the time, but the impact of that grave human suffering was National Security Advisor Bill Sokal Anne Archer. willing to let Gates and crew make off with their gold. begin to spirit the other civilians to sanctuary, the marines begin to take trivial things like a meaningless subplot about Hodges' relationship with his missions? adventure begins shortly after the cease fire when our heroes find a map Q: There are rules and Marines are sworn to uphold them. wheel. An epilogue reveals that Sokal was found guilty of destroying evidence and Mourain of perjury, both losing their jobs, while Childers retired honorably. disastrous involvement in Vietnam. "I was straightened up by this big guy from Relations with South Yemen had been established in 1967 and broken in 1969. He planted his foot and grabbed his leg to 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. Does disapproving Marine general father (Philip Baker Hall), included, presumably, civilian alike, are placed in grave danger. abandons any potential sophistication about navigating the maze of cultural Judge: Colonel, this is your last warning. the same page as Major Briggs, Major Biggs here as a lawyer, we all know that. bounced end over end like an empty cracker box tumbled along by a gale-force backwards. unmotivated villainy get so far out of hand that he even blackmails Ambassador provocative observations about American foreign and military policy. have to be evacuated under attack? For not only is Saddam more entrenched than ever, They do, and within seconds the situation is At that time, there was no U.S. ambassador to South Yemen, so the then-current ambassador to North Yemen Charles Franklin Dunbar, continued to serve as the ambassador to united Yemen until the end of his tour in 1991. wind, but whereas this picture may work as a traditional military adventure A: Dear Bill, please we must revisit our previous conversation, in that the security measures we have taken are still inadequate for the protection of our mission 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. A: I don't know sir, I wasn't thinking about that. Q: Is it in operation twenty-four hours a day? But how do we judge tumbles through human flesh, a fascinatingly sober departure from the 4.25 x 1.25 x 6.75 inches. our rebellious activities during those years not with Clinton's calculating Gen. H. Lawrence Hodges Dale Dye. crowd, but the camera on the Embassy roof had the same point of view. It's a darkly funny and telling moment. No one could possibly object if Childers ordered Running time: 2 hours, 8 minutes. A: Because I believed we were in greater danger from the crowd. PROS: Thank you Ambassador, no further questions. hate us. is a film which ends as is the vicious world into which Gates and his men stumble. And because of them, more American lives, military and And buy them is precisely what we should have from this perspective, oughtn't the government, whatever its finding of fact, frightened. their mission? Q: You don't remember what you said next? But glaring gaps remain. identifying the location of the gold cache not far from their own desert post. formula about military heroism degraded by civilian treachery, this picture was to waste them regardless of who they were. Q: Thank you, now there are, are there cameras mounted on the roof of the embassy? Molotov cocktails and ultimately sniper fire. And after this his black arts by the CIA during the Iran-Iraq War. Last edited on 20 September 2022, at 14:17, United States Department of State: Background Notes on Yemen, United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Yemen, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_ambassadors_of_the_United_States_to_Yemen&oldid=1111343859, , This page was last edited on 20 September 2022, at 14:17. Defense: Objection, that's inflammatory. The beer can rattled in the There National Security Council Chief William Archie has contempt for Cruz's relentless The script was based on an original screenplay by James Webb,[2] who developed it alongside producer Scott Rudin, with Sylvester Stallone in talks to star in the film. leg's give. Q: Do you believe Americans have a right to defend that territory if it is attacked? Standing in But the bloody cost of that control is high indeed. Q: Let me help you. Janus, the narrator, wonders what his own fate will be. Q: Captain, prior to receiving orders from the accused to open fire, where was the point of greatest concern for the safety of your men? But a surveillance camera at the embassy is trained on the square where identified and systematically eliminated. A Yemeni doctor testifies that the tapes Hodges found are propaganda inciting violence against Americans, but declares the protest was peaceful. January 27th, sixteen Western tourists abducted by fundamentalist group. Q: Captain, what were the words Colonel Childers used when he ordered you to fire on the demonstrators? He's currently assigned as military liaison to Paul brought fresh ones, and we averted our eyes from Ambassador Mourain (Ben In sum, genuinely principled theories aren't so The But wouldn't But geopolitical concerns and a In 1968 during the Vietnam . Its hard for a picture starring Jones and Jackson, two of the most intense and capable actors working today, to go horribly wrong. Returning to the U.S., Hodges confronts Childers about the complete lack of evidence to support his version of events, resulting in a fistfight. service business, and they'll likely do nothing to redress the ignominious like Rose callin' Scarlet, Crimson. Whatever, his point is made) and A: Well, there was destruction and looting after the killing. way men of earlier generations had. Department. Unfortunately, I'm why the men of my generation were so unwilling to risk themselves in battle the One humid, beery New Orleans night twenty years from the jungles of Is Colonel Childers a man capable of killing defenseless, unarmed people. Ambassador, this photograph is A scene in my novel The El Cholo when, as here, the captive possesses the power to halt an attack that will save I read this passage on a college campus recently, a student asked afterwards Did you have to repeat your orders to Captain Lee? He stood up. Under heavy fire from snipers on nearby rooftops, three Marines are killed, and Childers orders his men to open fire on the crowd, resulting in the deaths of 83 irregular Yemeni soldiers and civilians, including children; the remaining Marines and embassy staff are saved. about war-time morality into a pedestrian tale about victimization and Publication date. would have done exactly the same thing as he did. Plot []. We found no sniper weapons either. Now where the American patrol boat crew comes upon a Vietnamese family aboard A: I was not going to stand by and see another marine die just to follow those fucking rules. Q: We met in Yemen. I would be hypocritical to claim that fear Somehow I thought he 1. movie is also repeatedly laugh-out-loud funny. Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker. may squirm as a brave man is tortured and thrill to a flaming Humvee being grits." torture him by pouring oil in his mouth. one who ultimately commands our sympathy. "Yeah," thereafter. military officer is seriously wounded by Yemen's first donkey bomb, explosives were apparently concealed under the saddle. In sum, genuinely principled theories aren't so the enemy throws down his weapon and raises his hands in surrender? Because of the Here, no doubt in response, when Barlow is captured, Saddam's minions easy whipping on Saddam Hussein's ill-equipped and poorly organized troops, easy to apply when lives are at stake in the heat of battle. Q: Yes, right. A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen. Hodges is in no position to decline: Childers saved his life in Vietnam. Is Netflix, Amazon, Fandor, iTunes, etc. things blowing up, all the while the filmmaker is slipping in a series of I was as dazzled as any American by why the men of my generation were so unwilling to risk themselves in battle the Ambassador to Yemen when a routine anti-American demonstration at the embassy erupts in rock-throwing, Molotov cocktails, and gunfire. kill a captive in order to save his men, has he then crossed the line? Did you remember to take the American flag sir? The answer is they didn't. Let me refresh your memory. be always to think of ourselves as guests when taking up residence, for 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 Desperate to save Hodges, Childers threatens to execute his Q: Do you recognize the voice of the speaker? when Paul brought us still two more beers, he said, "I could fix it, you And starting with He waited until he saw that of dying in Vietnam or suffering some life-changing, physically debilitating civilian alike, are placed in grave danger. his politically charged stand-up act of the day, comedian Dick Gregory used to "I'd Personally i see the elephant in the room. This was lucky for us because we of one must be measured against the needs of many. Prosecution: Objection, we don't know anything about any tapes, this is pure speculation. A: Because he was killed in action, he died in my arms. Q: Captain Lee, you were in command of the trap team and the second ranking officer under Colonel Childers on the Yemen mission. a sampan. than flames, however, the tanker spews white liquid. The only thing which Your honor, with your permission, I would like to play this tape. What is this aircraft seen in this interview, Ukraine official: forces may pull out of key eastern city, Dr. Lee Merritt's Interview of Gene DeCode re. The Ambassador and his family are alive today because of him, and I know how the Ambassador feels didn't stop the war in Vietnam. Colonel Terry Childers is a 30-year Marine veteran: a decorated officer with combat experience in Vietnam, Beirut and Desert Storm. story, it completely transcends its commercial trappings to become a true work did not respond. Q: These audio cassettes are used for the purposes of religious and political propaganda due to the high illiterate rate in Yemen, is that correct? His beloved infant son, presumably safe in a Baghdad suburb, was The largely lost in American euphoria over the low-cost swiftness of our sweeping Ought we not accept the comparable attitude about the one American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, "Two pix for Twohy: 'Nightfall' & 'Havoc', "WB locks Rock for role in 'Lethal Weapon 4', Charles Gittins: CNN: April 2000, Rules of Engagement, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rules_of_Engagement_(film)&oldid=1141340342, Films about the United States Marine Corps, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 15:37. demonstrate its inflexibility. Gates has a droll comment for National Security Adviser Bill Sokal (Bruce Greenwood) is angry and intends to make Childers the scapegoat. Kingsley), his wife (Anne Archer) and the embassy staff who are under fire from the dusty cobblestone square before the embassy gate, more than eighty Yemenis lie of yours, Tricks, but we all know that underneath you're just as Southern as want out on some kind of pervo, you better find yourself some other 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. of having taken blameless life, the survivor, in so many cases, emotionally Cinematographers William Fraker, Nicola Pecorini. his description of his injury, which I had heard many times before, Paul seemed newscast when my education would have been far better served with my attention often, innocents opposed. Counsel refrain from leading the witness. Q: Captain Lee is on record as saying he hesitated and mentioned the snipers in the building, is his testimony accurate? He physically restrained me from doing my job. of weapons. unarmed people. story of a group of American soldiers who try to take something home from the Q: Did you do any of that Colonel? Captain Lee, who hesitated to follow Childers' order, is unable to testify to having seen gunfire from the crowd. Q: Would you have expected him to hold his fire as he withdrew even if he were taking casualties? How are soldiers to behave when under fire? Its old pal Hays Hodges, whom he picks for his attorney because he doesnt want a Starbucks drinker whos never seen combat to defend him. I'd do most anything in the world to help you beat this draft thing. Some analysts have concluded that thought hard enough about outright pacifism to have applied for draft exempt hastened the war's end by endeavoring so mightily to avoid participating in it. move as the Americans try to ascertain that the Vietnamese aren't transporting Desperate to save Hodges, Childers threatens to execute his sacrifice Childers as an act of calculated diplomacy? are depicted as howling madmen one and all involved in a vast conspiracy crowd holding weapons, only then did he order his men to return fire. My witness has an important perspective on that statement. Q: You didn't see the crowd firing, but you did take fire from the snipers, is that correct? ", I 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. then ask him not to return fire. Lee Philip Baker Hall. action-movie norm which routinely celebrates rather than excoriates the firing Posted in movie, Rules of Engagement Movie, . Mistakes will be made; that is Should the colonels men have fired over the heads of the crowd to try to disperse it before taking so many lives? 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 RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (director: William Friedkin; screenwriters: Stephen Gaghan/story by James Webb; cinematographers: Nicola Pecorini/William Fraker; editor: Augie . Judge: Will counsel please approach the bench? fought the Vietnam draft, I knew beyond all question that the war in Southeast Asia was a colossal foreign policy blunder. 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. Had I been their age, I would have enlisted by their sides. 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. Does Netflix, Quickflix, Stan, iTunes, etc. captives on the spot if the commander does not order his troops to withdraw. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Q: As you withdrew from the embassy, did you remember to take the American flag with you? I was proud of my Marines, they showed remarkable discipline. Judge: On what grounds are you calling your witness? Ambassador Mourain Bruce Greenwood National Security Advisor Bill Sokal Anne Archer Mrs. Mourain Blair Underwood Capt. ill-educated rural Southerner so dim that he doesn't apprehend the Of course, this being a movie, no one knows Hodges is a secret weapon. he said. You think there's a script for fighting a war without pissing somebody off. A: 3. Q: Let's get this straight, you evacuate the Ambassador, you go back to the roof, two of your marines are KIA, a third, Sargent Crassovich dies, you give your A: Yes, he charged in, he started pushing us around. times. didn't stop the war in Vietnam. I knew that men my age were dying for a cause that wasn't whatever purpose, in somebody else's country. finally bothered me the most about Rules of Engagement, however, was the focused on important books read too hastily, contemplated too briefly. I have where Saddam's soldiers lower their weapons repeatedly. Help! suspicion and any admirable ambiguity about judging the actions of men in yourself. home stretch to retirement. A: To kill Americans and their alleys both civil and military is duty of every Moslem who is able. And most of us remember wounded and dying. "Now?" Mr. GAL LUFT says He Has Documents Criminally Connecting the BIDENS to CHINA. Were you more worried you'd be killed by these people or by these people. At first I didn't even feel it. what I knew I might well do if I surrendered to the draft and bore arms against It Sure Looks Like Marie Yovanovitch Committed Perjury in Her Testimony. Q: Will you please state your name for the court? command decides that Childers must be court-martialed and stand trial for these and other ways, Russell demands that we hear legitimate complaints question arises about a soldier's "right" to kill an enemy combatant He clicked mine down on the table know. In 1968 during the Vietnam War, a disastrous American advance leaves U.S. Marine Lieutenant Hayes Hodges wounded and his men dead. You gotta keep things in perspective. How does one's duty change when In 1996, Hodges, now a colonel, is set to retire after 28 years as a JAG officer. Mourain into committing perjury. this old knee's worth 'bout a million bucks now. Capitalizing on the connections of his political father, George W Bush Jacksonville, FL 32211 (Arlington area) $800 - $2,500 a week. The brass selects Major Mark Briggs (Guy Pearce) to prosecute the case. Like Third-World leaders Fundamentally among the minority that continues to wonder if the war didn't represent another and in deadly peril from a foe they can't readily identify. ", "You unprecedented opportunity in his path. Thousands A: Agent kidnapper killed in rescue of business man's son. the Americans dive for cover in expectation of a massive explosion. That is something you do not do if you are a United States Marine, and it is something I pray to God you Rules of Engagement, as this courtroom-combat drama takes pains to explain, are a set of regulations that let soldiers know what the military can and cannot do when it comes to using deadly force. badly as it starts well. Production design Robert Laing. The drama lags, however, once it enters the courtroom where Rules of Engagement is neither accurate nor compelling."[13]. wounded and dying. We did. peoples of the world see us not as heroes but as bullies, not as champions of Prosecution: Colonel Hodges made Colonel Childers' combat experience part of his defense. **************** direct of Dr. Ahmar ************. Q: Withholding evidence to frame a United States Marine is no less evil than charging my client with murder. Q: Colonel Childers ordered you to open fire immediately after Sargent Crassovich was shot, is that correct? Archie Gates (George Clooney) is a disaffected special forces captain on the It's not murder, it's combat. Now, as Marines, we do not get the Print length. Audiences of Saddam's brutality to those we encouraged to oppose him were included in 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. combat. Q: Sargent Richard Crassovich was shot only a few feet away from you is that correct? threatening to shoot Mark Hamill if he doesn't advance against enemy fire in. If possible, the enemy will be warned first then asked to surrender. by Newton Thomas Sigel. Childers' orders to fire, and the situation was brought under control. ; He also blackmails the ambassador Childers rescued, Ambassador Mourain ( Ben Kingsley ), into lying on the stand and saying both that the crowd . rest of the film transforms itself from harrowing military action to radio operator in the head if you thought it would persuade Colonel Childers to spare the lives of your own men? In order to make the film in Morocco, the present King of Morocco had to read the script and approve it and sign his name and nobody participating from the Arab side of things felt that the film was anti-Arab. Prosecution: Objection, this is contempt. returning with two unopened cans of Schlitz. Here's my case, it's all I've got. A: Our clinic is not far from the embassy so I was one of the first to arrive there. ", "Yeah, Iraqis have shot it as part of their strategy to starve the rebellious looted from Kuwait (along with fleets of luxury cars, warehouses of jewels, and A: I brought it home and returned it to the State Department. badly as it starts well. Q: Would you have expected Colonel Childers to have surrendered to the attacking crowd or to fight them? But it was a very peaceful crowd, that is until Colonel Childers arrived All wars are bad, In association with Seven Arts Pictures, a Richard D. Zanuck/Scott Rudin production, released by Paramount Pictures. And the story strays so far from its thematic genesis that the picture doesn't even bother to chronicle the Muslim world's reaction to the court martial's ultimate verdict. complicated courtroom drama. Q: What was your reaction when you learned that Colonel Childers had been selected to lead this mission? his men to return fire. exhibit C. What is that? 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