A Navy SEAL sniper sits on the roof of a building in
Iraq. In the street below is an American military convoy. His job is to
shepherd those soldiers to safety by keeping a lookout for potential threats.
In the city war zone that has been evacuated, any military-age male must be
regarded as a threat. First he scopes a man talking on a cell phone. The man
steps inside, not knowing how close he came to losing his life. Next a woman
and a boy, not more than eleven or twelve years old, arrive on the street. She
hands the boy a rocket-propelled grenade. The voice on the other end of the
soldier’s com can’t confirm visually. The call is entirely his. Men who engage
in war are fair targets. What do you do about a child who is about to kill your
comrades?
