Posted on 02/07/2016 3:52:07 PM PST by Jeff Head
This is my review and recommendation of the movie, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.
The movie has very course language and extreme violence. But it is true to life and not gratuitous. I normally would not see, let alone recommend an R Rated movie...but in this case every adult American should know what happened in Benghazi.
These are our soldiers and fellow citizens, and these courageous soldiers on the ground, served us well. But the upper levels of government, particular in the State Department and the Executive Branch did not...which brings me to my requests.
The first is to God in Heaven that He will see that Justice is served on those who failed their countrymen so horribly for pure political expediency.
The second is to my fellow Americans, to make sure that those people, particularly Hillary Clinton, who abjectly lied about these events for political reasons, NEVER be allowed to have the reigns of power like she so desperately craves. In such a position, she would surely do even much worse...as if this travesty was not bad enough.
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FYI. I had to post these comments after seeing the movie, 13 Hours: The secret Soldiers of Benghazi.
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Jeff, I agree....
A MUST SEE movie!!!!!!!
People were leaving my theater mumbling angrily...
....’they left them’...!!!!!...... No one helped!!!!!
Well, Glen Doherty came with a team from Tripoli and he helped...and died. Got there in time for the last fight, when the enemy used the mortars.
I also believe there was a General and an Admiral who were relieved of command because they were willing to disobey those orders too...but there were people in their commands who could relieve them.
Thank God no one was there to relive the men on the ground because they saved American lives.
Yes, there's some strong language in it. I'm not sure it was necessary. Yes, I heard plenty of the same when I was on active duty, but it's still jarring to hear it come out of the mouth of an actress.
Putting that aside, it's a very intense movie. Nevertheless, the point comes through clearly. Some brave men were abandoned for the benefit of some politicians. The politicians aren't named in the movie, but they don't need to be. We know who they are.
Remember in November!
I recommend this movie and the book. I agree that some of the language was not necessary.
Yes, I Agree, that was obvious...
..also obvious the big guns, the air power were told to stand down....
What gets me, Jeff.....why aren’t any of those CIA people fearless enough to speak out
Is it just because they’re CIA
fwiw.....I’m a stickler about ‘ language’
...but I was so caught up in the realism of this true story, the words rolled right over me!
Honestly, the words seemed natural & seamless......and NOT for shock effect or gratuitous
Bttt!
I saw it a couple of weekends ago. They were the best of us, and that entire State Dep’t. failed them. All the while, all those morons on the ground were reminding them that they were not Harvard/Yale graduates, and how superior they were, that these, the best of us, were a bunch of dumb, muscle-bound jocks no different that night shift security guards in local buildings. That the State Dep’t. couldn’t even send a plane for the bodies is ___________ - something, but I don’t know the word for it. :(
I still have yet to get the time to see this.
BTTT
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Thanks for posting this Jeff.
Even Stevens died honorably in Bengazi. He was preparing to spill the beans on Obama arming revolutionaries in Syria.
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This needs to get legs!
They could have left the raunchy talk in the beginning of the movie out and it would have been better and also allow teens to see the bravery shown by these American heroes. I don’t remember the book having that kind of raunchy talk. It was distracting and certainly not necessary. For adults, it a very good movie.
What I want to know is what was Petraeus doing during these 13 hours, what was Obama doing, What was Panetta doing, and why did Hillary go home from the State department, instead of being with her State department aides watching the real time drone video?
I read the book a while ago, and I do not recall raunchy language. It's possible I have forgotten.
Got any idea of how close they got it, even to the appearance of the actors who portrayed the real guys?
This is one example:
Well, one of them certainly spoke his mind:
No longer have to wonder how our current president and wannabe president will respond to that fateful phone call at 3 in the morning. Hell, they could not even answer the phone at 3 in the afternoon.
The "most transparent president and administration" refuses to say where he was at during this period. Obviously with someone/somewhere that would be more damaging if known than refusing to answer.
It was obvious the contractors felt they were betrayed by someone high in the administration when during the mop up, it was wondered aloud "how the hell did they (insurgents) get they exact coordinates for their mortar fire?" Very relevant question considering almost all US military commanders had no idea this compound even existed till calls for help went out.
Best take-away line for me . . . "Did anybody on our side ever answer the phone?"
Come on folks, give it a break about the crude language. Most appropriate when the character Sonjia was asked about her authority to request help. Anything less than crude language from her would have been meaningless.
Many funny lines/statements of obvious truth throughout.
See my own page on my site:
http://www.jeffhead.com/13Hours.htm
I have three links there to interviews of three of the surviving soldiers who were depicted in the film. All three of them indicate to Sean Hannity, Bret Bair, and Megyn Kelly that they personally worked with the director to make absolutely sure that they got it right.
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