Eye in the Sky: Should they Strike?

The movie “Eye in the Sky” is about a British-US task force targeting a house with terrorists in Kenya that they’ve been looking for 6 years and they are about to commit a suicide bombing and kill hundreds of people. They have to airstrike but when they are about to do it, a little girl puts a stand outside the house and the missile can kill the girl so it is all about should they do it or should they wait. We can find multiple themes in this story. One of them is terrorism, since the movie explores a dilemma against terrorists and it is all about saving the civils that are going to die in the suicide bombing. But it is also all about moral ethics. If they strike they will save many lives but if they don’t they will save only the little girls life. There is a conflict between the government and the officials, they don’t want to be the ones who killed an innocent girl because it would look very badly to the world, but they also don’t want to keep their arms crossed and do anything for the other 80 people they could’ve saved. Some of them think the ethical thing to do is to not do anything and others think that they should strike because is one life against many more. They did everything they could to save the girl but and the politicians agree to strike because the Colonel said it was only 45% that she could die. So they strike and when they do the little girl dies. Some of them celebrate that they could finally target the terrorist but the ones who were against the strike feel a lot of guilt and sadness. The struggle between the military and political officials reveals the tension among the need for safety, public relations, the rights of citizens and threat to innocent life.