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Jiang says Black Hawk Down's movie version is false because, in his account of the source book and real event, the downed pilot was held by Somalis, treated well, and later released after a ransom rather than rescued...
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Jiang says Black Hawk Down's movie version is false because, in his account of the source book and real event, the downed pilot was held by Somalis, treated well, and later released after a ransom rather than rescued from kidnappers by Delta Force.
"...pilot when they are when his helicopter was brought down in Somalia. Okay? And this was based on a book by Mark Bolden writing..."
"Eventually he was allowed to go home after the government paid a ransom. Okay? That's what happened in real life. But in the movie..."
"...only the united states is also at war in sudan and somalia you know this has been you know beyond the smoke screen of..."
"...to Europe from Libya, from Syria, from Iraq, Afghanistan. Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, okay? These are mainly Muslim people who threaten the Christian social fabric..."
A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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