{"id":174,"date":"2016-04-29T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T12:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2016-04-23T22:20:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T22:20:24","slug":"review-camp-victory-afghanistan-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/29\/review-camp-victory-afghanistan-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Camp Victory, Afghanistan (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"campvictory\"<\/a>Directed by Carol Dysinger<\/b><\/p>\n

The people of Afghanistan, who have endured millennia of invasions, have a saying: “You have the clocks; we have the time.” These words open up this depiction of three years in the forgotten war from a group whose voice is seldom heard \u2013 the Afghan National Army.<\/p>\n

Dysinger liberates the compromised term “embedded journalism” and uses her incredible access to depict a war of inertia and ancient feuds. As foreign forces come and go, the only constant is the haunting central figure of Gen. Fazil Ahmad Sayar.
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A veteran of 30 years of a rolling, roiling civil war, he becomes a reserved guide to the complexities of a shattered nation, where the lines between military, warlord, and Taliban are so blurred as to have no meaning. Yet behind his taciturn manner and hang-dog expression is a man whose dedication to bringing peace to his country may very well redefine the word “patriot” forever.<\/p>\n