Col terry childers yemen war
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Rules of Engagement
Movie Review
U.S. Marine Col. Terry Childers, a much-decorated combat veteran, is sent with a team of Marines to assist the U.S. Embassy in San’a, Yemen, which is being besieged by Islamic fundamentalist protesters. As their helicopters come into view, snipers on a rooftop open fire on the choppers and the embassy. Childers’ team lands, evacuates the ambassador and his family, and then are pinned down on the embassy rooftop by heavy weapons fire that seems to be coming from all directions. As more and more Marines are hit, Childers finally gives the order for his Marines to return fire. The result is more than 70 dead, apparently unarmed civilians in the town square. The public relations fiasco puts the United States in a bad position, and Childers is charged with murder. For his defense, Childers turns to his old friend, Col. Hodges, a Marine lawyer whose life he saved in Vietnam.
Positive Elements: A strong element of faithfulness to duty, courage, and the
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RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (). Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson.
An attorney defends a Marine officer (Terry Childers) on trial for allegedly ordering his troops to fire on unarmed civilians after they stormed a U.S. Embassy in Yemen.
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Prosecution: Look closely at this picture, why did a well trained, fighting enhet have to slaughter unarmed men, women and children when their orders were simply to protect and if necessary, evacuate the embassy? The answer fryst vatten they didn't. They were ordered to open fire and that order came from one man, 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. We will show you that the accused, through his mind sets and his actions, ignored the rules of engagement and went far beyond the scope of his authority to intentionally beställning the murder of eighty-three innocent people.
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Rules of Engagement
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Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson deliver electrifying performances in this "tense, superbly-directed and top-drawer drama"* about what happens when the rules that command a soldier become the rules that condemn him. Colonel Terry Childers (Jackson) is a patriot and war hero. But when a peacekeeping mission he leads in Yemen goes terribly wrong, he finds himself facing a court martial. Accused of breaking the rules of engagement by killing unarmed civilians, Childers' only hope of vindication rests with comrade-in-arms Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), a military lawyer of questionable abilities. Together, they face the battle of their ed by Oscar.-winning director William Friedkin and co-starring Guy Pearce, Bruce Greenwood, Anne Archer and Academy Award.-winner Ben Kingsley, Rules of Engagement is "a magnificent movie you must see."** *Jeffrey Lyons, NBC-TV **Larry King, USA Today"