Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: An amusing incident?

This story typifies who is dying (as collateral damage) from drone strikes. Though this incident is very sad in the movie as an American it is also very funny. So, this is the actual paradox of the Terrorist war we are fighting all over the world.

People often have never been educated out in the country. They can't read any language. So, they only know what people tell them. I'm not even sure you can imagine this coming from America.

So, in the movie Whiskey Tango Foxtrot they are at a remote village with a bunch of American Soldiers and Humvees. Tina Fey is there as an embedded reporter on one of her first assignments. A black soldier is among the white soldiers. An old bearded man walks up and asks the black soldier if he is a Russian?

The Black soldier (through a translator) says he's not Russian. He's black. And he thinks this is a crazy question.

But then the old man walks over to a group of other old men of the village and says "The Russian Soldiers are Black now". Now in all these cultures the young are very respectful and listen to the elders which this man was. What do you think he told the children, teenagers and 20 somethings in that village? He told them likely that the "Russian soldiers are now Black!"

And we wonder why the Terrorist war never ends?

Where they filmed Whiskey Tango Foxtrot looked at one point exactly like an area of Katmandu in Nepal I stayed in 1986 and late 1985 when I first arrived in Nepal before I drove to India for 2 months and then returned for about a month or two later to Nepal and went trekking up to 10,000 feet elevation near the Tibetan Border in Shermontang, Nepal with my family then in the Helambu district for over 50 miles over about a weeks time.

So, what I noticed is that this looked like the same area of where the Maha Laxmi Hotel was then in Katmandu. I found the movie disturbing because it brought together my Nepali and Indian experiences and put them in an Afghanistan context of wartime in the early 2000s up to 2006. So, I felt internally disturbed by this justaposition in my life. Because there was no war going on in 1985 and 1986 when I was in Nepal and INdia so the movie I found disturbing in a lot of ways.

Because it was the same then over there without the wars going on in Afghanistan and Iraq. So, there was this "Timeless" quality to these places where time stands still and it might as well be 1000 or 2000 years ago in some ways at least culturally speaking.