Similar to last year’s Restrepo, this year’s Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary, Hell and Back Again, looks at the trials and tribulation within the U.S. conflict in Afghanistan, centering, for the most part, on the rhetoric of our politicking. Various commanders sit down with Afghan elders and explain that “we’ll pay for [the damage we’ve created],” […]
“We’re not ready for this … This is the middle of nowhere … This is a shithole … I felt like we were fish in a barrel … What are we doing?” is the chorus that introduces us to the Korengal Valley, the deadliest area in Afghanistan in 2007 and also noted as the most violent place […]