Since the US military occupied Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, a so-called "green zone" has been delineated in the local city center, and its headquarters, the US embassy in Baghdad and the Iraqi interim government are located in it. The "Green Zone" secure area covers 4 square miles, surrounded by 5-foot-high concrete walls and barbed wire, and houses the majestic palace of former Saddam Hussein, with luxurious swimming pools, bars, cafes, and other "red" Compared with the situation in the "area", the "green zone" under the care of the US military is obviously like a "paradise". The film was all filmed in Baghdad. In addition to the Royal Palace, you can also see the landmark "Sword of Victory" in the Green Zone. And the theme of the film also comes from this. American officials in the green zone are playing games for the future of the country, while outside the green zone are full of people in Baghdad who have been displaced by lack of water and food...
And the reason why the United States really sent troops in the Iraq war, It is not clearly pointed out in the film, and there is no need to say that
in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, Iraq won, and the United States was Iraq's military aid country at the time, supporting Iraq to become the leader of the Middle East, thereby controlling oil output.
After the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq launched the Gulf War and occupied Kuwait. Kuwait is the main oil supplier to the United States, which touched the interests of the United States, so the United States had to persuade the United Nations to send troops.
Although the Gulf War was victorious, the defeated Iraq still had the ability to control the oil output of the Middle East, and was moving closer to China and the Soviet Union, forcing the United States to launch the Iraq War in 2003. The purpose is to overthrow the anti-US Saddam regime and establish a pro-US government, thereby continuing to control Middle East oil exports.
After the end of the Iraq War, the United States has completely controlled all the oil in the Middle East except Iran. Iran is a traditional anti-American country, and it has attracted China with amazing preferential in oil trade, which makes it the only thorn in the United States in the Middle East.
Therefore, the control of oil is the main thread of the entire Middle East war, and WMD (weapons of mass destruction) is just an excuse, which is an indisputable fact. In addition, war can drive arms trade, and interest groups represented by arms dealers are also the main forces driving the war. As for overthrowing tyranny and changing the human rights situation in Iraq...I would rather believe that the untruthful American soldiers represented by Miller in the film are fighting for this ideal.
After the background introduction, talk about the entanglements of the parties in the film.
The purpose of the Pentagon is to have Iraqi exiles as the leadership and to re-establish the government through democratic elections. Officials during the Damm era, again establishing a dictatorship. The purpose of both parties is to establish a pro-American regime. The Pentagon's plan attempts to transplant the American system to Iraq. Little do they know that the racial and religious problems in the Middle East countries are serious, and the implementation of the New Deal will inevitably lead to social unrest (the actual situation also proves this), and the CIA It advocates Iraqi self-governance, and it doesn't matter if dictatorship is not dictatorship, the focus is on maintaining stability (familiar - -). It happens that this general has evidence of weapons of mass destruction, which is a thorn in the eyes of the US government, so the Pentagon wants to kill people, and the CIA wants to protect him, and at the end of the film, when our audience is being directed to the side of the CIA where the protagonist is, The lame man suddenly jumped out and shot the general into briquettes, and shouted the most shocking sentence in the whole film: "It's not your turn to decide what happens here"...Every party in the film has its own Position, everyone has their own reasons for what they think is just, but who can represent the Iraqi people? No one but yourself can represent yourself.
The End of "The Green Zone"
Just a few days ago, Iraqi security forces took full control of all security checkpoints entering Baghdad's "Green Zone" on June 1. The media described the move as a "symbolic" step in the withdrawal of more than 90,000 U.S. troops from Iraq this year. But how can the stability of the government be ensured by relying solely on the troops that have always been supported by the United States? There have been constant conflicts between Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Kurds in the country, and there are many officers in the army who are eyeing the regime. The film ends with an open-ended ending, with Miller's emails and the noisy Iraqi parliamentary scene in stark contrast to Bush's "We won" on TV. The Americans won, leaving behind their democracy, but the Iraqi people must pay for the war. Only believe that time and the Iraqi people will solve these problems by themselves, this is the pain that the progress of civilization must go through...
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