After U.S. soldier Robert Bales murders sixteen civilians, most women and children, you want to understand more and peer into lives of Americans fighting in Afghanistan. You can\u2019t go there and don\u2019t have to. In your suburban living room a large flat screen on the wall video streams any movie you choose, in this case the documentary \u201cRestrepo.\u201d <\/p>\n
\tIn vivid color against stark, mountainous backdrops, soldiers say they take fire every day and feel like fish in a barrel and have to fortify themselves in unpleasant places where they burn their feces. On combat patrols, when soldiers hear someone\u2019s hit, they pray it isn\u2019t a close friend. Afghans are also weary of friends getting hit. A villager tells a soldier it\u2019s okay to kill Taliban fighters but the U.S. has also been killing ordinary people. Soldiers scarred by several firefights a day don\u2019t worry much about who they shoot. Still, the experience is not always unpleasant. One soldier swears there\u2019s no better high than getting shot at, it\u2019s like crack. You wonder if this soldier\u2019s ever smoked any. <\/p>\n
\tThere may be fleeting rushes during firefights but you doubt anyone is having much fun. Bullets from hell rain down on the soldiers. One cries in a field after another friend dies. Some Afghans are going to pay. The soldiers all commit to keep on fighting no matter who\u2019s killed. Their late comrade Restrepo would be proud.<\/p>\n
Source: Restrepo, a documentary film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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