War is hell.
But even in its midst, it is available to do the right thing. Hype and political propaganda aside, the Persian Gulf war was no exception. Three Kings , in using Operation Desert Storm as its setting, pulls no punches when depicting the confusion, political duplicity, and moral dilemmas engendered by that conflict. The opening scene also had definite traces of Catch-22 influence. His current assignment involves nothing more than baby-sitting the media faces who are swarming the area looking for stories, all of which have long been done and overdone.