09-01-2005, 03:18 PM
Rhydderch Hael,Sep 1 2005, 05:05 AM Wrote:Aye, that's the cut: where were the civilians? In Black Hawk Down, we saw nothing but combatants. A city chock full of enemy combatants. The innocent civilian population? Virtually nonexistent in the film. The Americans were rolling through the streets, and every single native that popped up into view was an enemy to be fired upon. It was "us versus them" with a total absence of non-combatants caught in between. No true element of human tragedy displayed. Just intense wartime action sequences where the only suffering is of the physical body by combat injury. No indications of the emotional and spiritual suffering wrought by irrational hate that spurs these wars in the first place.
And "'...backdrop to the true story"?
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When the Ranger was forced into the house and came upon the woman and children he didn't open fire. The book also explains that most of the citizens in Mogadishu that moved towards the Rangers were armed combatants.
By backdrop to the true story I meant that the civil strife in Somalia is the why we were there. The tale being told is of the Delta and Rangers that were in the city and their actions during that afternoon and night. It was the story of a snatch and grab mission that went wrong. It was not a documentary on the human condition and the history of Mogadishu's gangs.
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