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A comment on The Truth Shall Make You Free: Catholicism and the CIA. Parent comment
"What you see here, are the Mujahedin soldiers, holy warriors.
To us, this war is a holy war.
And there is no true death for a Mujahedin,
because we have taken our last nights, and because we consider us already dead.
To us, death for our land and God is an honor.
So, my friend, what we must do is to stop this killing of our women and children.
If getting this man free, so he can tell to the free world, and tell what happens here, is necessary then of course we will help."
I'm not sure if that's praising or exalting, but it wasn't damning in the context of the movie.
My favourite (and probably most prescient and ironic) quote from the movie is:
"You can't defeat a people like that. We tried. We already had our Vietnam! Now you're gonna have yours!"
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"What you see here, are the Mujahedin soldiers, holy warriors.
To us, this war is a holy war.
And there is no true death for a Mujahedin,
because we have taken our last nights, and because we consider us already dead.
To us, death for our land and God is an honor.
So, my friend, what we must do is to stop this killing of our women and children.
If getting this man free, so he can tell to the free world, and tell what happens here, is necessary then of course we will help."
I'm not sure if that's praising or exalting, but it wasn't damning in the context of the movie.
My favourite (and probably most prescient and ironic) quote from the movie is:
"You can't defeat a people like that. We tried. We already had our Vietnam! Now you're gonna have yours!"