May 5, 2011

“This film is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters gallant people of Afghanistan.”

It’s not clear from this trailer for Rambo III (1988), but when Rambo goes into Afghanistan to rescue his buddy Colonel Sam Trautman from sadistic Soviets . . .

he allies himself with the Mujahideen, the brave “freedom fighters” extolled by Ronald Reagan and saluted in the film’s original closing credits.

I can’t imagine what brought this to mind today.

posted by in history, international, memory, movies, politics, pop culture, sisyphean, war | * | 3 comments 

comments

  1. KevinQ on May 5th, 2011 at 6:54 pm

    If I remember correctly, one of the Timothy Dalton 007s also featured the brave freedom fighters of Afghanistan.

  2. Sheila Ryan on May 5th, 2011 at 6:56 pm

    Kevin, you’re right. I can’t remember which one, and I am too lazy to check.

  3. The Simple Joys of Voice to Text Technology « Rocket Highway on June 21st, 2011 at 9:33 am

    [...] it’s basically an account of Bin Laden and Al Zawahiri’s arduous journeys from “brave freedom fighters” in Afghanistan to terrorist masterminds of Al Qaeda. So, without further ado, here is the original quotation from [...]

Leave a Reply