Rachel Maddow: 'Americans Forced into Paying Attention Again' - New Afghanistan Docu 'Restrepo'

[Hissyspit]

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MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show - June 23, 2010: Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington new documentary on individual deployments in the 9-year-old war in Afghanistan. Filmed in 2008-9 in Korengal Valley. Won documentary at Sundance.

PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsy8BwGu0GI

[florida08]

1. a little background

Chinook helicopter was the only way in or out of their godforsaken encampment which was located in Eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, a safe haven for terrorists. Thus, the region was teeming with Taliban who attacked the American camp on a daily basis from the 10,000 ft. high mountain peaks surrounding the GIs.

Among the soldiers in the platoon was medic Juan "Doc" Restrepo, who seemed almost giddy during an interview at the outset of their dangerous deployment. "We're going to war!" he's shown chirping almost gleefully. Sadly, Doc was the first to be killed by the enemy, and not long after their arrival. So, they renamed their makeshift fort Restrepo in honor of their fallen comrade, and the filmmakers followed suit in terms of the title of this graphic, super-realistic example of cinema verite'.

Tragically, Doc would not be the last to perish before the troops' tour of duty ended, and this gritty picture captures not only the sadness, but the fear gradually etched into the faces of the survivors as they days wore on. The fighting gets pretty fierce, with fire often being exchanged at distances close enough to look into the eyes of the enemy and to engage them in hand-to-hand combat.

Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DjqR6OucBc

[freethinker2]

2. Its all a joke!

The people in this country just don't get it do they? The people we are fighting are not the same as we are.
"If I Need to tell you that" They are fighting us because we are there! We CANT WIN this game!
The people over there have a deep rooted religious ideology that cant be overturned by bullets and bombs.
The only way you can win a war of ideology is if they give that ideology up for another and thats not going to happen!
Ask the Russians, they wouldn't have won even if we wouldn't have helped the Afghanistan's with arms.
This is just a big waste of time, lives and treasury!
So sad.