![]() As a result, Americans in film are presented as the only people on earth who have stories worth telling, and the only people on earth whose lives are of real consequence. Hollywood movies like "12 Strong" - whether set in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan - are always focused on American heroism and American suffering, even when Americans are really bit players in overseas civil conflicts. Even the Afghan warlord recognizes that American lives are exponentially more important than the lives of his own people.ĭostum isn’t just pointing out a truth of the Afghan war he's pointing out a truth of most American war films. If one American is killed, the United States will pull out of the war, and the Taliban will win. ![]() If 50 Afghans die, Dostum says, it's no big deal. But Dostum tells Spencer that he and his 11 other American soldiers are too valuable to be put at such risk. Spencer wants to immediately engage with the repressive theocratic Taliban, riding his horse bravely through the mountains to avenge the recent September 11 attacks. ![]() Towards the beginning of their collaboration in "12 Strong," General Abdul Rashid Dostum (played by Navid Negahban), leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, tells American Captain Cal Spencer (Chris Hemsworth) some hard truths.
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