During a mission in the Middle East, a group of US soldiers destroy a statue out of boredom only to then be visited by something the next day.
B.L.U.R.E.M.I.!share
Islamist apologist moron!!
The only people who've destroyed ancient, sacred statues in Afghanistan are the barbaric Muslim Taliban...Who famously destroyed the huge statues of Buddha by launching artillery attacks on them!
Leftist, traitorous, ignorant idiot!
I couldn't stop thinking of the infamous Taliban destruction of those statues either.
And yeah, the synopsis is misleading. Even putting aside it was one jackass who did it and not the entire squad, it was clearly portrayed as something besides a notable religious icon and even specifically non-Islamic. It was more equivalent to any of a number of million movies and stories out there where someone breaks a random magic seal out of ignorance... hell, wasn't that even the basis for Earnest Scared Stupid? :D The only difference between the random statue in Red Sands and the broken statue in Wishmaster is location, and last I checked no one was complaining about "typical american dockworkers, breaking cultural artifacts while drunk" when that movie came out.
Somehow I always find these kinds of posts waaaaay late. I'm wondering who on earth wrote the plot synopsis for this movie because I'm guessing they didn't actually *watch* the movie. It was ONE soldier (Davies) who destroyed the statue; another one chastised him (Tino). Davies was established early on as the racist, sexist moron of the group and got worse as the movie progressed, repeatedly butting heads with his Staff Sergeant ("Nimrod"--suuuuure.)
What we've got with Chard is a caricature of the stereotype of the "ugly American". The rest of his squad was clearly not like that.
I have to say, I do find it somewhat comical that anyone would have the gaul to accuse ONLY "Western" soldiers of lacking cultural compassion.
How many times throughout history has one army burned the city, and the religious/cultural hubs therein, during or following a war?
The whole concept of the "ugly American" is bull - there are just as many "ugly" Frenchmen, British, Africans, Middle Easterners and Asians.
The reality is, there are just *beep* people out there - lots of them - that are bad people because they are bad people - not because they are American or Christian or Muslim or anything else. They are just bad people, and bad people tend to do bad things. Dont go blaming someones race/ethnicity/country (or Hemisphere in this case) of origin for their flaws/misdeeds.