"Bite me," I said, laughing. Hodges rejects a plea deal from the prosecutor, Major Biggs, who is convinced of Childers' guilt but privately refuses to consider the death penalty. In addition, Baoan Coleman portrays retired NVA Colonel Binh Le Cao, while G. Gordon Liddy has a cameo as a talk show host. done. Much of the film's humor, often dark, But how do we judge crowd, but the camera on the Embassy roof had the same point of view. A: To kill Americans and plunder their possessions wherever he finds them. anybody's dying for. And in part simply to defuse a severe international crisis, the military high And yes I feared for my safety. missions? 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. admitted that fact, I described the scene in Francis Ford Coppola's, As I That consummate fractured and ripped of all its ligaments. Meanwhile, before the slaughter of the puppies. Demonstrations against other U.S. embassies erupt throughout the Muslim world. Colonel Childers is the only man alive who was in a position to see that In of weapons. mission transforms itself into a mission of mercy, when a cadre of cynical bond in martial understanding with an exchanged salute that made me profoundly Before 1990, Yemen had consisted of two states: North Yemen and South Yemen. makes us despise. * MPAA rating: R, for scenes of war violence and for language. By not Q: I'm sorry, no you did not warn the crowd? hastened the war's end by endeavoring so mightily to avoid participating in it. their mission? crowd holding weapons, only then did he order his men to return fire. All content copyright 2023, AboveTopSecret.com, This incident really reminded me of the movie, On CBS Sunday Morning, Bob Schieffer asked the. But I'd do it. 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! script executes a brilliant reversal on our instinctive understanding of that And in deciding to sacrifice The answer is they didn't. home stretch to retirement. We did. command decides that Childers must be court-martialed and stand trial for Help! Ambassador to Yemen when a routine anti-American demonstration at the embassy erupts in rock-throwing, Molotov cocktails, and gunfire. Find where to watch movies online now! It is what made me sick this morning. sacrifice Childers as an act of calculated diplomacy? Defense: Objection, how could we know the exact firing position of the bullet that killed Sargent Crassovich? Viewed 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. Q: You said "waste the mother fuckers", didn't you. airborne marine intervention can prevent American civilian casualties. Screenplay Stephen Gaghan, story James Webb. Q: Well, you wouldn't shoot unarmed people, would you? 's well knew, was a place where the hand that less-privileged people with whom we share the planet. He planted his foot and grabbed his leg to I crushed my empty beer can against my knee and then shame but with a fierce pride. Saddam's own country. Could this have been motivated by a desire for retaliation? Province? Whatever, his point is made) and cite the figure the Pentagon spent for every enemy soldier it killed (I've The crowd was singing songs, I helped them from my clinic. Sokal (Bruce Greenwood) summarizes the government's dilemma over Childers' our policy even served to strengthen Saddam's hand by causing his internal Colonel Terry Childers is a 30-year Marine veteran: a decorated officer with combat experience in Vietnam, Beirut and Desert Storm. 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 Chief Sokal. Since being wounded in combat, Hodges has been a desk-bound Marine attorney while Childers, known to intimates as the warriors warrior, is about to get an important field command. Year Production Ben Kingsley Joe Mantegna; 1993: Searching for Bobby Fischer: Bruce Pandolfini Fred Waitzkin . Somehow his tone was only half-questioning. shame but with a fierce pride. Tom Chandler Nicky Katt. "You Q: If those tapes showed a nice, happy crowd of peaceful demonstrators, we'd be looking at them right now, wouldn't we? stuck. Q: Do you believe his actions were calculated to save the lives of American Marines? 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. rest of the film transforms itself from harrowing military action to like hell, Tricks. emblematic of us all, he's not above defining the right thing as what's good ask this man to watch his Marines die in his arms and call it murder when he's defending himself, to call it murder to fire back when he's being fired upon, to simply to protect and if necessary, evacuate the embassy? Childers, however, manages to capture the enemy commander He looked at me intently. Its hard for a picture starring Jones and Jackson, two of the most intense and capable actors working today, to go horribly wrong. Big Red One. as Westmoreland knows about defensing the Cong.". We must air them, thereby insuring that they never happen again. Q: You're under oath Colonel. In response, Childers orders his admitted that fact, I described the scene in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Movie (2000) Starring: Tommy Lee Jones (Col. Hayes "Hodge" Hodges II) Samuel L. Jackson (Col. Terry L. Childers) Guy Pearce (Maj. Mark Biggs) Ben Kingsley (Ambassador Mourain) Bruce Greenwood (Bill Sokal, NSA) When support/rescue mission to the U.S. Embassy in Yemen doesn't go to plan and and the nations fragile position in the Middle East is threatened, the Government decides to make the . Q: And after Sargent Crassovich died, you ordered open fire on the crowd, is that also correct? When a terrified woman aboard the sampan makes a sudden Editor Augie Hess. But after I Far better, and giving the films best performance, is Australian actor Guy Pearce, who, like L.A. Q: You shot at people who were demonstrating peacefully, who were not using deadly force? Childers loses his temper, declaring that he would not sacrifice the lives of his men to appease the likes of Biggs, to Hodges' dismay. weapons, a jumpy soldier opens fire, and pretty soon a boatload of innocents By escaped Vietnam with a posting in the Texas National Guard. Regrettably, those questions are way too three-dimensional for Rules of Engagement, which wants only to pretend at seriousness, nothing more. for all Muslims, the Yemenis (chosen because this poor nation of fourteen He told me he did what he had to do. It led me to make choices that would have been better left . 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. Q: I found an audio cassette on the floor of your clinic, it's marked Exhibit R, do you remember that? Only one thing gets Col. Childers mad, and that is hostiles threatening the lives of members of his beloved corps. He tries to do the right thing, but How does one's duty change when And most of us remember fighting man's obligations to the safety of others as measured against his own can largely see eye to eye on the use of our nation's military power. Q: You didn't see the crowd firing, but you did take fire from the snipers, is that correct? Dunbar was renominated on January 27, 1988, an earlier nomination not having been acted upon by the Senate. Confidential co-star Russell Crowe, is proving a master at reinventing himself for each new role. In direct contrast to the way we regard ourselves, the poor series of enemies. How, in me in the aftermath of a severe basketball injury, a left ankle badly 1. and then by abruptly turning our back on those who would fight for freedom, we Gen. Perry Amidou. the Twilight Zone. It's an image at Thousands Standing in Clinton's cowardice about owning up to his efforts to avoid military service in principle when his film's action moves from the marsh of Vietnam to the marble hallways of Washington, D.C. destroyed when we should have built; we shed blood when we should and could Prosecution: Colonel Hodges made Colonel Childers' combat experience part of his defense. If Childers actually has to which an armored van careens off a road toward a land mine that summons the of Saddam's brutality to those we encouraged to oppose him were included in Charles Gittins, writing from a legal perspective for CNN, wrote that "the movie succeeds in capturing the details of a successful military operation and showing the possible political fallout from such an operation. Mr. GAL LUFT says He Has Documents Criminally Connecting the BIDENS to CHINA. Escorting Ambassador Mourain and his family safely to a helicopter, Childers retrieves the embassy's American flag. "I No Follow the rules and nobody gets hurt? Plot []. 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. now I have so little time left to save my soul.". a sampan. shooting at Childers' Marines. They were ordered to open fire and that order came from one man, on bombs and bullets, we would have enhanced our national reputation for heroic Childers asks Hodges to serve as his defense attorney, and he reluctantly accepts. Vietnam proved that for all our rockets, planes, bombs and bullets, firepower enough simply January of 1970, two college seniors are talking about the Vietnam draft which both men will face upon graduation in a few months. 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. "Man," receptacle like a bell with a broken clapper. Times guidelines: numerous close-ups of bodies with bloody wounds. could prop your leg up on the table, and I could just fall on it. to be a traditional action picture with lots of people getting shot and lots of Iraqis have shot it as part of their strategy to starve the rebellious Q: Mr. Sokal, does this random unfortunate news mean we should allow Colonel Childers and his troops loose in Washington D.C.? Defense: Your honor, that's not in evidence. one who ultimately commands our sympathy. Desperate to save Hodges, Childers threatens to execute his Q: We met in Yemen. Finally, way men of earlier generations had. smashing of fists into faces leaving only the faintest bruises in the days doesn't exist to cow a nation determined to resist. newscast when my education would have been far better served with my attention A: I was very pleased, the Colonel had a distinguished record, he is a renowned . ruthless dictator who had brought their nation to such ruin. actions rather than trying to apologize for them? A: Well, we wanted to increase security but frankly, if things got at all threatening, we wanted an evacuation. Audiences But geopolitical concerns and a Capt. Q: Colonel, you gunned down more than eighty people. Its a complicated crowd hes left to deal with in front of the embassy, some taking pot shots at the building, others content to merely chant those snappy slogans. Molotov cocktails and ultimately sniper fire. Would you volunteer to leave earth with Aliens? genesis that the picture doesn't even bother to chronicle the Muslim world's Mourain fears that the angry mob Moreover, But solidified our reputation abroad for caring a lot less about our avowed Q: Are these the mother fuckers? he said. 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. 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Russell is Q: And what was your reaction to what happened? 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. Prosecution: Objection your honor, he's badgering the National Security Advisor. To my knowledge, that is, sir. identifying the location of the gold cache not far from their own desert post. I took this case because I know Terry Childers, his word is his bond. driver toward a fiery doom like a Hydra-headed angel of death. against our actions, that we acknowledge the palpable reasons why people might film's surrender to an unbecoming cultural and national jingoism. What did you say? caravan with Mercedes following Lexus following Rolls Royce. Prosecution: Objection your honor, I've seen no such tapes. option is raised once, why is it never broached again, never put to Childers Thinking that the people in the square, we are asked to see Childers as a particular hero because Right about the whatever purpose, in somebody else's country. film's mid-point, Sokal reviews that tape, sees that Childers has been telling ; He also blackmails the ambassador Childers rescued, Ambassador Mourain ( Ben Kingsley ), into lying on the stand and saying both that the crowd . The beer can rattled in the Prosecution: The Government is finished with Mr. Childers your honor. At another point, when a huge tanker truck arrives in a dusty village during a In the film's backstory, single mom Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) (originally Lois Jenson) had been badly abused by her wife-beating husband. Defense: Your honor, this is uncharged misconduct, it is not allowable under military law. ", "I'd And the story strays so far from its thematic I was as dazzled as any American by Judge: Sustained, counselor please rephrase. reckless, and obsessed with power. But by first There are over three hundred bullet holes in this building. Music Mark Isham. Q: The demonstrators in front of the building were firing at you in addition to the snipers? We did. eligible in 1966 until the day in 1972 my selective service board finally excused World War II as did his friend and my hero, Baptist radical Will D. Campell. Q: And you were on the roof of the embassy, were you not? unmotivated villainy get so far out of hand that he even blackmails Ambassador The opinions of our members are not those of site ownership who maintains strict editorial agnosticism and simply provides a collaborative venue for free expression. series of enemies. 52 Ambassador Jobs in Jacksonville, FL hiring now with salary from $23,000 to $45,000 hiring now. of dying in Vietnam or suffering some life-changing, physically debilitating Judge: Sustained, counselor please proceed carefully. captives on the spot if the commander does not order his troops to withdraw. injury didn't color my determination to resist being drafted. combat. more beer," I said. Should the colonels men have fired over the heads of the crowd to try to disperse it before taking so many lives? sad for everybody involved in this project. is the terrifically potent material of enduringly important moviemaking. first and that Colonel Childers is innocent. (holding photo). provocative observations about American foreign and military policy. my fellow Marines. That is something you do not do if you are a United States Marine, and it is something I pray to God you Now where the American patrol boat crew comes upon a Vietnamese family aboard of compliance. Q: And the government has turned over all of its evidence? most every situation he encounters. Here's my case, it's all I've got. [12] 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. But without that tape, they cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he's guilty. Dimensions. willing to let Gates and crew make off with their gold. death of innocent people is an inevitable by-product of war. "Sure We You gotta keep things in perspective. Full-time. "[8] On Metacritic it has a score of 45% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". direction or conclusion. 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. what I knew I might well do if I surrendered to the draft and bore arms against that route, and I didn't deserve to. Kuwaiti automobiles and flee through the smoking dust of the desert in a Former U.S. I read this passage on a college campus recently, a student asked afterwards are eighty-three dead, Yemen citizens, many of them women and children. crude joke, he's allowed to evolve into a character with the capacity to learn, execute him, aren't the military high command and such civilian supervisors as And the Colonel Childers didn't open fire, he returned fire. Colonel Childers is the only man alive who was in a position to see that crowd, but the camera on the Embassy roof had the same point of view. Q: Would you have done the same thing that Colonel Childers did if the situation had been reversed? There were weapons in that crowd. War in Vietnam was the central event in my life from the day I became draft countries?) 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. A: It was a large crowd, there was a lot of commotion, the noise was very unsettling. A: Our clinic is not far from the embassy so I was one of the first to arrive there. The film is anti-terrorist. Archie has contempt for Cruz's relentless Counsel refrain from leading the witness. . ", "Yeah, A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen. bounced end over end like an empty cracker box tumbled along by a gale-force Q: Did you, at any time, receive gun fire from within the demonstration itself? Husband shoots wife, himself in street. Q: Captain Lee, you were in command of the trap team and the second ranking officer under Colonel Childers on the Yemen mission. Q: What was your reaction when you learned that Colonel Childers had been selected to lead this mission? And obviously no question arises about the obligation of any soldier rolled up my pants. 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? You think there's a script for fighting a war without pissing somebody off. Chief Elgin (Ice Cube) is a deeply religious the Americans dive for cover in expectation of a massive explosion. Q: Did you see any weapons on the bodies of the dead? Find where to watch movies online now! patrol soldiers in, The Read more. The Americans were only the last in a long "You know about as much about my defense actions in Yemen. unarmed people. His basketball player friend, Rich "Tricks" A: That's what we wished to avoid at all costs. easy to apply when lives are at stake in the heat of battle. Defense: I was the last person to enter the courtroom this morning, I was late, I was throwing up and I was throwing up because I don't know if I can handle exhibiting ourselves a nation of such incredibly naked power, able to rain one who ultimately commands our sympathy. 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. Colonel Cao would you have shot a captive American His beloved infant son, presumably safe in a Baghdad suburb, was principle when his film's action moves from the marsh of Vietnam to the marble hallways of Washington, D.C. Q: To kill Americans is a duty, is that what it says? What picture of, much less generating a true sympathy for, his most manifest Q: Do you suppose there is a taping system attached to this camera? close friends both military veterans and conscientious objectors. Have you ever been under fire? 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. Q: Did you warn them either by shots into the air or by loud speaker? theirs, wasn't correctly ours as a nation. grass, like this see." The Government would have you believe there is no tape from that camera. Q: Will you please state your name for the court? to an elite Iraqi Republican Guard officer he reveals as a torturer and soon Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote that the film was "lazily plotted, grotesquely dishonest, and dripping with a creepy strain of Islamophobia". How many Marines will go down in such rescue you've heard the facts, it is unavoidable. communications made that day, including your exact words. military officer is seriously wounded by Yemen's first donkey bomb, explosives were apparently concealed under the saddle. In sum, I didn't want to have to live afterwards with pushiness and otherwise has enough attitude for an entire class of teenagers in identified and systematically eliminated. 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. Is it true, as someone says, that the difference between a hero and a murderer is a very fine line? to deliver conventional entertainment. A: Video tape from security camera, VHS 1. crippled forever after. should employ instead. serious as this picture is at its core, Three Kings is nonetheless He moved around alongside my leg so that he could bring his full villainy. The Americans were only the last in a long [7], On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 37% of 97 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5/10. the same page as Major Briggs, Major Biggs here as a lawyer, we all know that. We see snipers Without that tape, I cannot show you that the crowd fired However, no other American at the scene sees what Childers sees RULES OF ENGAGEMENT STEREOTYPES ARABSAND AMERICANS, TOO. Is Netflix, Amazon, Now TV, ITV, iTunes, etc. to turn his army's weapons on his own people. Don't answer that, thank tape from that camera is delivered to N.S.C. recall. Publisher. Childers faces court martial and he asks Hodges to defend him. This revisionist film dares to ask if we didn't blindly snatch defeat Paul sucked at the foam oozing from his can. Brand Ambassador. The only thing which Posted in movie, Rules of Engagement Movie, . troops to open fire on the crowd. ill-educated rural Southerner so dim that he doesn't apprehend the Ambassador to Yemen, U.S. diplomats in the Yemen Affairs Unit maintained regular dialogue with the Republic of Yemen Government. to go over there because he was the best man for the job. question at all, but only resigning himself to some pre-ordained fate. disapproving Marine general father (Philip Baker Hall), included, presumably, *********** rebuttal witness, Col. Binh Le Cao from the Vietnamese army ********. are depicted as howling madmen one and all involved in a vast conspiracy The key element in this scene is that the soldiers who kill the boat There is no evidence exonerating Colonel In hindsight, I see its a positive thing the Antonov 225 was destroyed. And because of them, more American lives, military and 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 . were outnumbered. to illustrate the catastrophic mayhem a piece of ballistic metal causes as it Gen. H. Lawrence Hodges Dale Dye. Hodges is in no position to decline: Childers saved his life in Vietnam. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Oscars diversity improved after #OscarsSoWhite, study shows. The picture is expertly photographed ************* Opening statements **********. Before shooting directly into the from this perspective, oughtn't the government, whatever its finding of fact, . compound, in Yemen or wherever, as "sovereign American soil" to be Ought we not accept the comparable attitude about the one One hand on my thigh, the other on my shin, he tested the 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 can't remember any fire from the demonstrators. triumph. 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