Winning the Peace

On June 14th, 2003, The New York Times ran a photograph of an American soldier kneeling and embracing one of his fellow men. Upon reading the caption, the reader discovers the cause of the soldier’s anguish: Iraqi children have been maimed by unexploded battlefield ordinance. Beyond the immediate tragedy of the destruction of innocent lives, the events that produced this image had to reflect something fundamental about this particular war. In this film the weeping man is Lieutenant Charlie Latif, a proud member of America’s peacekeeping mission in Iraq. But this war has a much deeper meaning for Charlie.