Tuesday, February 22, 2005

I just happened to catch most of a Frontline show about a U.S. company stationed in Baghdad, called A Company of Soldiers.

My guess is it was made by someone who went to Iraq doubting the wisdom of the war but came away impressed by the soldiers he met there. And it's pretty compelling stuff just watching these soldiers going through their day(s).

There's a nice scene of a colonel telling a local sheik he better start identifying the bad guys in his town or there'll be hell to pay, and a heartwrenching sequence of soldiers profoundly grieving for one of their own killed in an ambush. It may have been intended to remind viewers that we're paying a heavy price for Bush's War, but it just made me proud that this country can produce such brave and decent men.

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