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...worst moment came a week after the victory. The war was won, everybody filed their stories. Then the Shiite rebellion began, egged on by President Bush's call on them to rise and overthrow Saddam. I'd gone up the Euphrates, and crossed a river into Shiite territory. The Iraqi Republican Guard was killing thousands and thousands of Shiites. It was incredible, just slaughter. I came out and tried to do a story about it, and no one would listen. The war was over but now there were more casualties happening than in the war itself, and nobody cared...
...failure to stamp out the Hutu insurgency exasperated the Rwandans, and his leadership style fomented widespread resentment in the ranks of those who'd fought in the rebel armies of the east. When Kabila switched his support to the Hutu groups in 1997, the Rwandans and Ugandans resolved to overthrow him - and quickly. And they'd have succeeded, but for the intervention of Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia to shore up Kabila...
...million of their Tutsi countrymen in 1994, and Kabila had failed to deliver on promises to stop the Hutu gunmen operating from bases inside the Congo. When he turned on the Rwandans in his capital and made common cause with the Hutu militants, Rwanda launched a lightning operation to overthrow him. But where the defeat of Mobutu had relied in part on the intervention of Angolan forces over Congo's western border, the renewed Rwandan invasion took the Angolans by surprise, and they raced in, together with Zimbabwe and Namibia, to shore up Kabila. Uganda once again fought alongside...
...people were not keen to support him. Now that the Serbs have overthrown Milosevic, they'll probably turn to the West, which has a lot more to offer than Russia does. So there's a danger in Putin's strategy that when all of these countries open up and overthrow their dictators, they're all going to turn back to the West. What will Putin do then...
...metaphor debated frequently throughout the film. The twist ending of this film, a trick that Shyamalan became famous for in The Sixth Sense both supports and distorts the metaphor, and leaves the viewer unsure about whether the ending is an attempt to make a profound statement or overthrow any sense of seriousness...