How secure are the armed forces in that country?
SPURLOCK: Those guys are targets everyday. On this trip, where I felt the most exposed was when you were embedded with the troops. And those guys went out of their way to protect us and they’re heroes for what they do: they put their lives on the line for us every day, to help us. One day you’re driving along with them on a convoy and they find an IED, so they divert our convoy back to the base, while explosive guys go detonate the IED. It’s frightening. Any day something terrible could happen. ALI: In the Middle East and third world countries, they say 9/11 was a tragedy, but that tragedy happens on a daily basis for us – Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan. They say, “Why are you so bent out of shape when you have one terrorist act when we have so many?” Did 9/11 endear the world community toward us or did they feel we deserved it? SPURLOCK: There was a great interview we did – there were so many, we had 900 hours of footage for an hour and a half movie that we cut down– in
