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...battle the U.S. military had supposedly won years ago. This northern Iraqi city of 1.8 million people was thought to have been pacified in 2003, when the 101st Airborne Division under then Major General David Petraeus executed a counterinsurgency strategy that many military analysts regarded as a model approach for the rest of Iraq. But Petraeus' successes largely disappeared soon after the 101st Airborne left the city in early 2004; Mosul's U.S.-trained police force collapsed, and insurgents drifted in and out of the city as they staged fights in other places, such as Ramadi, Samarra, Baqubah and Baghdad...
...Moss says. From this collaboration stemmed a shared aesthetic and fascination with secrecy, which ultimately led to their artistic alliance. “The central insight of the film is the way secrecy imbues power to those who keep secrets,” Moss says. In order to approach this world of shredded documents and locked file cabinets, the co-directors interviewed individuals whose jobs are to keep the government’s secrets. Some of the film’s subjects include Tom Blanton, Director of the National Security Archives; Mike Levin, National Security Agency retiree; and former...
...sprinted off the bus to get a better look at the scene unfolding before us, and once we went, the whole pack followed, as our minder-translators stewed helplessly. We watched the farm workers, as one hesitantly described himself to us, gather to walk in orderly rows, approach the statue reverently and then bow deeply before...
Todd took a literary approach to guilt by exploring shame and forgiveness as a theme for Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky...
...Ortiz, on the other hand, is just as satisfied with her work even though she’s taken a different approach towards her relationships with her campers...