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Black Hawk Down

Back to the future
By ritobaan in ritobaan Blog
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"What would have happened had Private Jessica Lynch been captured by Iraqi militia, handed over to an angry mob of residents who then proceeded to murder her and drag her body through the streets of Baghdad? Would the US government, withered by public pressure, have withdrawn troops from Iraq? Would the price paid by Lynch and her loved ones been justifiable for the greater good of an end to the US military action in Iraq? Questions like these keep cropping up when looking back at the Mogadishu ‘incident’ in Somalia in 1993 when US troops suffered heavy losses in streetfighting with militias and the ignominy of seeing a captured US soldier killed on the streets and dragged through the streets by the Somalian populace, an image that was broadcast to every household on international television networks. Suddenly the ugly spectre of war came uncomfortably close to American civilians, prompting a public outrage that forced the Clinton government to pull out of Somalia. ... " [More]

Lost in Translation

The Loneliness of the Traveller
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"I saw this movie coming up in talk shows on the telly and could not help being slightly sceptical about what seemed to me another twist to the romantic comedy genre albeit with Bill Murray instead of Jennifer Lopez. As it turned out, this movie goes another step to convince me that no matter how much a movie is talked or written about, in the end, you have to see it to decide if it connected with you. A critic's eye is not your eye. A friend's eye is not your eye either, for that matter. Imagine this movie as a book - the first few chapters introduce us to this actor whose career is obviously on the downslide, grasping at the last straws of television and modelling before he, with his receding hairline, is quietly shunted off the big screen. American actor goes to Japan and is shocked at how much of a bubble American life is - he knows practically nothing about the language, cuisine and culture of a foreign land except those elements that the foreign land tries to imitate ... " [More]

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