Harrowing and intense, "Restrepo" is a documentary filmed by two journalists who embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan. You will be left questioning the Afghani conflict but even more so than that, any conflict in which tribal peoples are involved. U.S. efforts to curry favor with Afghani locals are typically met with blank stares. They don't care about democracy. They don't care about bin Laden or Taliban. They just want people to stop shooting guns on their land. I think I would want that, too, but there is bigger picture at work here, and the locals are in denial. For how long?
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