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...three directors. The dual roles taken on by Pastel, Pecci, and Renaud, who direct and perform the play, add to the production’s intimacy. It is clear that the three are comfortable with one another, which adds a new level of complexity to their emotional combat. It’s almost as if the audience is intruding on a private evening shared by the play’s characters, which distances the viewers from the proceedings and makes their meanings even more elusive. Just as memory itself is murky and indistinct, the characters and their reality...
...government's position all along has been that it is fighting criminals, not members of the Mahdi Army. So the importance the government has attached to Sadr's announcement undercuts its assertion that it is not engaged in combat with the radical cleric's forces. More importantly, it was not clear that the militia would comply with the government's initial demand that its members surrender their weapons. Sadr's statement simply asked his followers not to appear with their weapons in public, and said that those who did would not be considered Mahdi Army members...
...Such a figure is Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe), who has bravely served his time - the picture opens with a very well staged combat sequence - in Iraq and yearns now for the tranquility of life in his one-horse Texas home town. Ordered to re-up, he deserts, despite the fact that his best pal (Channing Tatum) is determined to return him to duty. Brandon, chastely accompanied by Michelle (Abbie Cornish), embarks on a cross-country trip, which begins with him seeking official redress of his grievance and eventually puts him in touch with other victims...
...French will back troop deployment to combat zones and will tolerate significant death counts as an occupational military hazard," notes political commentator Gilles Delafon. "What they won't tolerate are soldiers being sent to their deaths because officials didn't have a real strategy or plan for how to win the conflict. And that looks to be the case with this new deployment to Afghanistan...
...contingent of 1,600. But while those currently in Afghanistan patrol the relatively calm area in and around Kabul, most or all of the new units are expected to be sent to the south of Afghanistan, where the reformed Taliban and their allies have strengthened. Indeed, deaths among Canadian combat personnel in the area have been so high that Ottawa had threatened to pull its military from Afghanistan if NATO allies did not contribute reinforcements. That echoed even sterner U.S. demands for more effort from underperforming NATO members...