Comments on: Watching “American Sniper” in Iraq https://thenewneo.com/2015/02/02/watching-american-sniper-in-iraq/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:53:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2015/02/02/watching-american-sniper-in-iraq/#comment-873378 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:53:06 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=46238#comment-873378 David Adair:

Please take a look at this, this, and this.

]]> By: David Adair https://thenewneo.com/2015/02/02/watching-american-sniper-in-iraq/#comment-873338 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:14:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=46238#comment-873338 JJ’s observation about liberals links nicely with the observations of LTC (RET) David Grossman regarding wolves, sheep, and sheepdogs. The
liberals are the sheep, the wolves are the bad guys of every type, and the sheepdogs are the warriors, police, and firemen who place themselves in harms way protecting the sheep. Because the sheep dogs resemble the wolves in their capacity for, in some cases, lethal force the sheep fear and resent them. Look up Grossmans full description of this topic, it is well worth reading.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2015/02/02/watching-american-sniper-in-iraq/#comment-869615 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:11:27 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=46238#comment-869615 Interesting. Usually it’s the anti war Hollywood movies, tax free, that make it big overseas. They don’t have to fund their production costs merely off US theaters.

]]> By: Eric https://thenewneo.com/2015/02/02/watching-american-sniper-in-iraq/#comment-869151 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 06:03:02 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=46238#comment-869151 JJ: “They can’t handle the truth!”
Cornhead: “clueless elite.”

I’ll repeat the suggestion I made under Neo’s previous post about ‘American Sniper’. When the false narrative about the ‘why’ of Operation Iraqi Freedom is brought out to criticize the movie, don’t run away from it. Rather, seize the opportunity to correct it with this.

]]> By: Cornhead https://thenewneo.com/2015/02/02/watching-american-sniper-in-iraq/#comment-869146 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 05:07:11 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=46238#comment-869146 After watching the movie I concluded we have a great and good country and a rotten, weak and clueless elite.

There is still evil in the world and the Left doesn’t get it.

And I get sick thinking about the dead and wounded in Iraq and then Obama surrendering. That error -.compounded by the coming unforced error with Iran’s nukes – is going to cost the West dearly.

]]> By: J.J. https://thenewneo.com/2015/02/02/watching-american-sniper-in-iraq/#comment-869130 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 03:42:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=46238#comment-869130 The protests over “American Sniper” by the usual suspects reminds me of the statement by COL Nathan Jessup in “A Few good men.” They can’t handle the truth!

They want men to stand on the ramparts and protect them. They don’t want to admit it, but they need them there. Then when they find out they are rough men who know how to kill, it frightens them. They realize how inept and vulnerable they are. And they don’t like it. They need to think that they are better than those rough men. If they could man up and show some class, they might show a tiny bit of gratitude for the rough men like Kyle who protect them. But they are classless jerks with no grasp of reality and no ability to climb down off their moral high horses.

]]> By: Eric https://thenewneo.com/2015/02/02/watching-american-sniper-in-iraq/#comment-869117 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 02:26:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=46238#comment-869117 I want to see a movie about the Counterinsurgency “Surge” and Anbar Awakening.

Leftist propagandists define the insurgents as champions of the Iraqi people and legitimate resistance to the occupation. Suffering caused by the insurgents is ascribed to the Americans. I imagine the Left adapted the template for the Viet Cong and NVA.

Meanwhile, the Iraqi people that are victimized define the insurgents as what they are: terrorists and murderers that prey on the Iraqi people.

]]> By: charles https://thenewneo.com/2015/02/02/watching-american-sniper-in-iraq/#comment-869114 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 02:19:32 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=46238#comment-869114 ” . . . reports have started to come out this week that reveal their often unexpected reactions.”

Why, does that author think:

” . . .shoot him! He has an IED, don’t wait for permission!!”

is an unexpected reaction?

]]> By: NeoConScum https://thenewneo.com/2015/02/02/watching-american-sniper-in-iraq/#comment-869075 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 22:56:40 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=46238#comment-869075 Michael Moore: “Fuck..Shoot him!!” From a pesky A-Rab to an American warrior to dispatch an A-Rab Evil Doer. Does he know something you don’t, Comrade Mikey? Answer: You bet your Fat Azz.

]]> By: Exasperated https://thenewneo.com/2015/02/02/watching-american-sniper-in-iraq/#comment-869054 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 21:57:09 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=46238#comment-869054 “one Iraqi man named Gaith Mohammed said that it played to full and enthusiastic crowds. “……, but others were screaming ‘Fuck, shoot him! He has an IED, don’t wait for permission!!’” he said of one of the film’s many tense scenes.”
It’s eye opening to look through someone else’s prism. It isn’t always about us or the histrionics of American political jockeying.

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