Let’s go to the movies. Today’s feature is “Black Hawk Down,” a riveting telling of the United States’ misadventure in Somalia. It’s the battle of Bakara market, a fierce confrontation between Army Rangers and the enemy.

A Ranger convoy is pinned down, taking heavy fire. A colonel, played by Tom Sizemore, grabs a soldier, drags him over to a truck and removes the killed-in-action driver. The colonel and the soldier yell at one another: