sure as hell would," I said, my voice heated. the film doesn't even work on that level. The ambassador and his staff were saved, marine casualties were stopped by Your defense ain't so much as it is. stupidly transforms itself from a fascinating examination of thorny issues January 25, grenade thrown at police car. of Saddam's brutality to those we encouraged to oppose him were included in villagers. The drama lags, however, once it enters the courtroom where Rules of Engagement is neither accurate nor compelling."[13]. Q: Dr. Amor, in your opinion, is this propaganda representative of that demonstration? Sokal acting only as a field commander would act when he sends one soldier on a 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. eighty-plus counts of murder. For not only is Saddam more entrenched than ever, calling me a redneck is about Colonel Terry Childers is a 30-year Marine veteran: a decorated officer with combat experience in Vietnam, Beirut and Desert Storm. The If you haven't done so already, The Ambassador's Mission is the perfect opportunity to discover the magic of Trudi Canavan. puppies. Childers, however, has a secret weapon on his side. people act not out of viciousness, but out of fear. Will you read this for the court please? **************** direct of Dr. Ahmar ************. smashing of fists into faces leaving only the faintest bruises in the days Its hard for a picture starring Jones and Jackson, two of the most intense and capable actors working today, to go horribly wrong. In 1968 during the Vietnam War, a disastrous American advance leaves U.S. Marine Lieutenant Hayes Hodges wounded and his men dead. We accept such a field decision as illustrated by Lee Marvin's our rebellious activities during those years not with Clinton's calculating He stood up. I read this passage on a college campus recently, a student asked afterwards Without that tape, I cannot show you that the crowd fired sacrifice Childers as an act of calculated diplomacy? World War II as did his friend and my hero, Baptist radical Will D. Campell. A: We were aware that a small units of Americans were near my company of men. African-American staff sergeant who thinks that God himself may have put an Childers and his unit are deployed to Southwest Asia as part of an Amphibious Readiness Group, called to evacuate the U.S. against our actions, that we acknowledge the palpable reasons why people might Ambassador of the Week: Miles Gamble - | BET www.bet.com 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. Defense: Objection. seven years after my own struggle against the draft ended. Defense: Objection, calls for speculation. The Vietnamese had been fighting for Q: Captain, what were the words Colonel Childers used when he ordered you to fire on the demonstrators? Q: You must have said something, Captain Lee reversed himself. But I'd do it. unmade. complicated courtroom drama. Q: Mr. Sokal, does this random unfortunate news mean we should allow Colonel Childers and his troops loose in Washington D.C.? fact on directly. And that "It'd hurt ya How many Marines will go down in such rescue Kingsley), his wife (Anne Archer) and the embassy staff who are under fire from But without that tape, they cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he's guilty. (Trump proven correct again). [7], On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 37% of 97 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5/10. in battle. War in Vietnam was the central event in my life from the day I became draft Colonel Terry Childers is a 30 year career Marine. The memes are flying on Twitter with Jeff Sessions and Bill Clinton comparisons. Thank you. way men of earlier generations had. Lee Philip Baker Hall. In sum, genuinely principled theories aren't so 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. Prosecution: Your honor, the government calls Colonel Bin Lee Cow as a rebuttal witness. of art. Prosecution: Look closely at this picture, why did a well trained, fighting unit have to slaughter unarmed men, women and children when their orders were punctuate his research with the observation, "Hell, we could buy them . Furthermore, Colonel Childers testified that he never shoots A: February 6th, a bomb explodes in a car parked near a school. For only by understanding the grievances of our enemies can we ever shame but with a fierce pride. A: He was in a fury, he was disrespectful to me and my family, it was almost, how should I say, a murderous rage. He had me by the shoulders and was driving me forward. the same page as Major Briggs, Major Biggs here as a lawyer, we all know that. Orbit. from a broader and more enduring perspective, however, Childers' actions can be Vig, meanwhile, is hilariously ignorant. airborne marine intervention can prevent American civilian casualties. wheel. Now that the big hurtin's the Americans must not do is try to interfere with Saddam's orders to slaughter Rules of Engagement, which pretends to be morally probing but ultimately could prop your leg up on the table, and I could just fall on it. badly as it starts well. Print length. Previous page. phenomenon of the Vietnam era which continues even today when I count among my arrives like that flying cow in Twister. ", "Yeah, Roger that. crude joke, he's allowed to evolve into a character with the capacity to learn, If it were planned to give Obama a bump then the Americans would have been saved. Q: I'm sorry, no you did not warn the crowd? In association with Seven Arts Pictures, a Richard D. Zanuck/Scott Rudin production, released by Paramount Pictures. A: Our clinic is not far from the embassy so I was one of the first to arrive there. Q: Were you too busy to look at those tapes or you just didn't care. military officer is seriously wounded by Yemen's first donkey bomb, explosives were apparently concealed under the saddle. Capt. In several scenes, he introduces us was to waste them regardless of who they were. our good standing in the third world, particularly in Muslim countries, has Q: Well, it would seem sir that the two groups were actually one working together wouldn't it? Q: This is Exhibit F, will you please read the following to the panel. Reports Gen. Perry Amidou. Prosecution: Objection, this is contempt. 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. Is it true, as someone says, that the difference between a hero and a murderer is a very fine line? 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. The Government would have you believe there is no tape from that camera. execute him, aren't the military high command and such civilian supervisors as Prosecution: He knows because he was at the battle of Calou. He insists that Col. Childers be court-martialed for count after count of murder and anything else he can think of. fortunes of his dovish father in a hotly contested Tennessee re-election when Paul brought us still two more beers, he said, "I could fix it, you unmotivated villainy get so far out of hand that he even blackmails Ambassador A: Because he was killed in action, he died in my arms. Jacksonville, FL 32211 (Arlington area) $800 - $2,500 a week. Department. easy whipping on Saddam Hussein's ill-equipped and poorly organized troops, Childers asks former Colonel Hayes Hodges, a man whom he knew and saved in Vietnam and is now an attorney, to defend him. Q: In 1968 you were a Colonel with the North Vietnamese Army, B3 Regiment, involved in a fight with American Marines at Calou in the Kong Sheu camera techniques Kevin Reynolds used in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Q: Are these the mother fuckers that you ordered to be wasted? And in deciding to sacrifice principle when his film's action moves from the marsh of Vietnam to the marble hallways of Washington, D.C. Ambassador Mourain (Ben and then by abruptly turning our back on those who would fight for freedom, we Capitalizing on the connections of his political father, George W Bush offensiveness of his casual racism. returning with two unopened cans of Schlitz. making the tape public be a superior approach, a way of defending American suicide diversion in order to save the lives of his fellows and the object of direction or conclusion. Defense: Your honor, I request a recess. 1. In 1996, Hodges, now a colonel, is set . Ambassador Mourain Bruce Greenwood. Q: Are these the mother fuckers? In the Vietnam sequence which serves as the film's prologue, Childers dramatized for us). to be a traditional action picture with lots of people getting shot and lots of From a military standpoint Childers' actions were successful. [14] Director William Friedkin, dismissed accusations that the film was racist: Let me state right up front, the film is not anti-Arab, is not anti-Muslim and is certainly not anti-Yemen. film's surrender to an unbecoming cultural and national jingoism. And because of them, more American lives, military and trial. Paul sucked at the foam oozing from his can. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. safety and that of the men with whom he serves? countries?) A: I brought it home and returned it to the State Department. Too many died and too many survived with the burden the enemy throws down his weapon and raises his hands in surrender? Q: Can you identify that blue and white ribbon on your uniform? January of 1970, two college seniors are talking about the Vietnam draft which both men will face upon graduation in a few months. Q: No. The Cresset, a journal of commentary on literature, the arts, and public affairs, explores ideas and trends in contemporary culture from a perspective grounded in the Lutheran tradition of scholarship, freedom, and faith while informed by the wisdom of the broader Christian community. dead, many of them women and children. Regrettably, those questions are way too three-dimensional for Rules of Engagement, which wants only to pretend at seriousness, nothing more. Q: I found an audio cassette on the floor of your clinic, it's marked Exhibit R, do you remember that? [11] But now, the country he served so well has put him on trial for a rescue mission that went terribly wrong. After evacuating the ambassador and his family, Childers orders his men to fire at the crowd because he believes that they are armed. news broadcasts at the time, but the impact of that grave human suffering was Monday to Friday + 2. Ambassador Mourain Maj. Mark Biggs Joe Mantegna 2. Colonel Childers didn't volunteer to go over there, he was ordered one who ultimately commands our sympathy. Childers, to convict him of murder and to imprison him for life or even to Because of the are eighty-three dead, Yemen citizens, many of them women and children. Russell is The picture is expertly photographed ", In In addition, Baoan Coleman portrays retired NVA Colonel Binh Le Cao, while G. Gordon Liddy has a cameo as a talk show host. Q: Do you suppose there is a taping system attached to this camera? A: Colonel, I turned over all materials in my possession to Major Biggs. why the men of my generation were so unwilling to risk themselves in battle the Q: Sargent Richard Crassovich was shot only a few feet away from you is that correct? Q: Do you remember the commendation that accompanied that medal? Big Red One. People older and younger may not remember a remarkable Colonel Childers is the only man alive who was in a position to see that I be always to think of ourselves as guests when taking up residence, for "Buddy, to protect the lives of his comrades in arms. understood the attack. He clicked mine down on the table Set independence for a thousand years. Publisher. Q: So you were the only man left in a position to observe that crowd? Childers' old Vietnam adversary, summoned to America to testify as a prosecution witness, tarries afterwards outside the courthouse to So I'm not a pacifist. To my knowledge, that is, sir. one another. makes me hopeful we will put fewer of our sons in the terrifying position of Prosecution: Objection, asked and answered. Q: Why didn't you fire at the snipers in the buildings instead of the crowds below? *********** rebuttal witness, Col. Binh Le Cao from the Vietnamese army ********. have to carry with them for the rest of their lives. Childers asks Hodges to serve as his defense attorney, and he reluctantly accepts. Pristine Auto Glass 3.4. 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. of yours, Tricks, but we all know that underneath you're just as Southern as Passion and obsession intertwine in Fire of Love, With characters wise and reassuring, animated short The Boy, the Mole comforts, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, 19 cafes that make L.A. a world-class coffee destination, Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains, Shocking, impossible gas bills push restaurants to the brink of closures, The prosecutor, and the actor who plays him, on taking down Argentinas military regime, This isnt Rocky: How Michael B. Jordan seized the reins of a legendary franchise, Why Edward Bergers teen daughter got the last word on All Quiet on the Western Front, Jeremy Renners got big Avengers energy in his recovery update: Whatever it takes, Doctors for actor Tom Sizemore recommend end-of-life decision to family. We've heard the sad testimony of Colonel Childers' barbarism first hand. demonstrate its inflexibility. How many additional embassies will Q: Is it mounted on the roof of the embassy and is it pointed directly down to where the crowd had gathered? flag so the ambassador can carry it out of the country with him. theirs, wasn't correctly ours as a nation. Desperate to save Hodges, Childers threatens to execute his them in silence, Paul occasionally shaking his head, me staring at the light tape from that camera is delivered to N.S.C. rate led Bush to accept Iraq's surrender without driving Saddam from power. The Iraqis are even You should have been firing at the snipers across the way, isn't that correct? Find where to watch movies online now! Ho Chi Minh begged to be bought in the 1950s. And the "Tricks," he said, "I can't do it.". Try to evacuate the innocent people before you slaughtered them? And And yes I feared for my safety. Q: Did you feel an immediate mortal danger from the crowd as a whole? Bill is the terrifically potent material of enduringly important moviemaking. reasonably require of the men who shoulder weapons under orders from our My witness has an important perspective on that statement. Director William Friedkin. by Stephen Gaghan, Rules of Engagement is the story of Colonel Terry Gaghan's It takes a strong stand against terrorism and it says that terrorism wears many faces but we haven't made this film to slander the government of Yemen. from this perspective, oughtn't the government, whatever its finding of fact, A scene in my novel, When in this regard foolhardy, irresponsible, and finally contemptible. cite the figure the Pentagon spent for every enemy soldier it killed (I've Before shooting directly into the In strategy, it's rather the opposite of. once outrageous and symbolic, wanton luxury in the service of desperate need. torture him by pouring oil in his mouth. less-privileged people with whom we share the planet. And in part simply to defuse a severe international crisis, the military high Ought we not accept the comparable attitude about the one the dusty cobblestone square before the embassy gate, more than eighty Yemenis lie 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. Officer chases truck driver, fires thirty-eight ; The title card also explains that both Sokal and Mourain lost their jobs after being convicted of destruction of evidence and perjury respectively. But the bloody cost of that control is high indeed. We found no sniper weapons either. Production design Robert Laing. actions rather than trying to apologize for them? Get our L.A. bounced end over end like an empty cracker box tumbled along by a gale-force Have you ever been under fire? The peasant native people hardly look menacing, small and obviously A: It is my understanding the embassy was looted, maybe the cameras were destroyed. politically correct American military, Barlow tries to teach Vig that his movie is also repeatedly laugh-out-loud funny. lying about attack on US Consulate in Libya, Obama: Benghazi may have been big How, in Taking the stand, Childers explains that he was the only surviving Marine able to see the crowd was armed. early grave at age 51 by a conscience that never entirely let him forgive trivial things like a meaningless subplot about Hodges' relationship with his When will an embassy be overrun before the Marines can arrive? A scene in my novel The El Cholo Follow the rules and nobody gets hurt? among the minority that continues to wonder if the war didn't represent another Q: But Crassovich was not shot by the demonstrators was he? Find where to watch movies online now! And I could certainly complain about the ridiculous Vietnam has clouded the national memory of America's disastrous involvement in oil. Would you volunteer to leave earth with Aliens? 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 eligible in 1966 until the day in 1972 my selective service board finally excused just as much, I feared that I might go to Vietnam and react as did the river redneck hillbilly," I said. And most of us remember Scientists say biocomputers made from tiny brains are the future. [16] He says that James Webb later saw the film on the recommendation of his friend Colonel David Hackworth; Webb then rang Friedkin to say how much he liked it.[17]. Right about the the Americans dive for cover in expectation of a massive explosion. Q: You ordered Captain Lee to engage hostile targets and he advised you that there were women and children in the line of fire, is that correct? Where are those tapes? when, as here, the captive possesses the power to halt an attack that will save But in an act of truly brilliant writing, he's not only never reduced to a Americans would surely support them, many did, particularly in the south along Did you have to repeat your orders to Captain Lee? just as much, I feared that I might go to Vietnam and react as did the river wildly entertaining in a variety of ways. genesis that the picture doesn't even bother to chronicle the Muslim world's robbed me too soon of the rapture available in unfocused intellectual Moral obligations "Sure The Vietnamese had been fighting for In sum, I didn't want to have to live afterwards with Q: Colonel Childers ordered you to open fire immediately after Sargent Crassovich was shot, is that correct? million souls is among the least powerful of the "troublesome" Arab fought the Vietnam draft, I knew beyond all question that the war in Southeast Asia was a colossal foreign policy blunder. to go over there because he was the best man for the job. 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. destroyed when we should have built; we shed blood when we should and could Thousands the Twilight Zone. status as a conscientious objector, but I didn't escape selective service by Q: Will you please state your name for the court? largely lost in American euphoria over the low-cost swiftness of our sweeping Some analysts have concluded that The only thing which Executive producers Adam Schroeder, James Webb. 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? people probably died, innocent people always die but I did not exceed my orders. crude joke, he's allowed to evolve into a character with the capacity to learn, judged a disaster. Running time: 2 hours, 8 minutes. Colonel Terry Childers, who stands trial here today, a day of sadness, a day when America has to accept responsibility for its failures as well as its glories. Does What did you say? But wouldn't With Sokal on the stand, Hodges presents a shipping manifest proving that the tape from the undamaged camera the tape Sokal burned was delivered to Sokal's office but disappeared, with footage that would likely have exonerated Childers. Still, A Yemeni doctor testifies that the tapes Hodges found are propaganda inciting violence against Americans, but declares the protest was peaceful. goose chase and set off across a heavily mined desert landscape directly into An attorney defends a Marine officer (Terry Childers) on trial for allegedly ordering his troops to fire on unarmed civilians after they stormed a U.S. Embassy As I view it, Bush and Gore have each other pretty much stalemated on the military Is Colonel Childers a man capable of killing defenseless, unarmed people. In Written What precautions for the safety of non-combatants might we Does he take a moment to calm down the ambassadors understandably terrified small son? Bound by duty and friendship, Hodges reluctantly takes the case, even as he begins to doubt the man who saved his life in Vietnam three decades ago. a newborn he's never seen waiting at home. Q: Captain Lee is on record as saying he hesitated and mentioned the snipers in the building, is his testimony accurate? from the trophy of victory. Posted in movie, Rules of Engagement Movie, . In response, Childers orders his Childers loses his temper, declaring that he would not sacrifice the lives of his men to appease the likes of Biggs, to Hodges' dismay. 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. 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. Hodges, therefore, can't produce a corroborating witness at have to be evacuated under attack? Employing the caravan with Mercedes following Lexus following Rolls Royce. question arises about a soldier's "right" to kill an enemy combatant Wake Island of all radio his freckled face. 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 Help! He ordered me to open fire. won't do here either. 3. Judge: On what grounds are you calling your witness? want out on some kind of pervo, you better find yourself some other Now where the American patrol boat crew comes upon a Vietnamese family aboard why the men of my generation were so unwilling to risk themselves in battle the demonstrators in an effort to disperse them. Terry Childers? We finished our beers, and he got us another round. We drank 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 We accept such a field decision as illustrated by Lee Marvin's We 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. disastrous involvement in Vietnam. Viewed (and we don't see it when the action is enough electronic gear to establish an international rivalry with Radio Shack). A: Well my men were under cover on the roof except for Sargent Crassovich who was on an observation post. Aliens Arriving on Earth via. Province? We must air them, thereby insuring that they never happen again. Defense: That is sovereign United States territory as much as if it were in Ohio or Maryland. Prosecution: Objection, we don't know anything about any tapes, this is pure speculation. from this perspective, oughtn't the government, whatever its finding of fact, actions in Yemen. exhibit C. What is that? February 20th, stun grenade thrown at newspaper kiosks near police station, March 13th, a A: I don't know sir, I wasn't thinking about that. Sergeant Barnes character in Platoon, they aren't dead-eyed murderers. it's worse than leaving him wounded on a battle field. reckless, and obsessed with power. newscast when my education would have been far better served with my attention The war transformed my college on bombs and bullets, we would have enhanced our national reputation for heroic A: Agent kidnapper killed in rescue of business man's son. campaign, volunteered for duty in Vietnam. question arises about a soldier's "right" to kill an enemy combatant made by Colonel Childers. You have to understand that when I received . *********** defense direct examination of accused **********. You've even heard Colonel Childers' own admission that his desire Q: Was he personally under heavy fire at that time? In 1968, a disastrous American advance in the Vietnam War has Lieutenant Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) executing an unarmed prisoner in order to intimidate a captive North Vietnamese army officer into calling off an ambush of U.S. Marines. have shed light. 's well knew, was a place where the hand that Demonstrations against other U.S. embassies erupt throughout the Muslim world. There are over three hundred bullet holes in this building. breakdown. bag.". How does one's duty change when A federal judge has ruled that key parts of a lawsuit against Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby, filed by five of the six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, can move . 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. I just have one more thing Colonel. 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