Black hawk Down is an excellent movie. i had the feeling that i might have been watching a battle of the Trojan War or the peloponnesian war or some other highly decisive historical event. i do not think that mailer's evaluation of the magnitude of what is happening is unrealistic at all.
I don't get any great insights from Norman here. It was a major event? It has forever changed things? My goodness, every local airhead, blow-dried news anchor figured that out by the evening of 9-11.
Any guy who stabs his wife and also works real hard for the release of a murderer just because the perp has a talent for putting a few sentences together is a complete (and dangerous) maroon.