What a shock: Hollywood pushing back at "The Sniper"

I thought this was interesting...

Snipers

No bias or rage at it, but it is pretty fascinating.

 

Oh, it counts. Just like Jerry's dinner with Kenny Banya at Mendy's counted, even though Banya only had soup. It counts.

 

The country gave Obama a blank check on drones and he's overspent it. The media has greater concern for a football being
under inflated by 2 psi that our civil liberties.

 

Carlos Hathcock is still my favorite sniper
Sniper Central Carlos Norman Hathcock II

 

Actually, you are right. Was going by the NYT story that said he shipped off to Iraq in 2001 shortly after he met his future wife. He started boot camp in early 1999.

 

War doesn't give soldiers a blank check, Dick, but what Kyle did was his job, to keep his fellow soldiers from getting killed. Certainly we need to be as efficient as we can, but shit happens in war. I have no problem with the drones either. Once we're in, whatever we can do to keep as many American soldiers alive is fine with me. I guess to a point, but I don't know what that point is. I am in no way pro-war, but once we commit, the soldiers who did not choose that war have to do whatever they can to stay alive and keep their colleagues alive.

 

How about if we are bombing US citizens in Yemen via drone strike. There are no US troops in Yemen to protect.

 

I'm not arguing the specifics of this situation. What I'm pushing back against is Songbird's contention that people should not even be examining the morality of actions at war, at all. That's too far. That's a blank check for atrocities. I'm not saying, of course, that the United States or Chris Kyle cashed it. But it's not anything goes.

 

I'm talking about during war. I am not too worried about using drones to target confirmed terrorists either, but it should be as selective as possible. There will be casualties/accidents, but if we want to fight terrorism, then that's the cost of doing business.

 

Not sure I ever got into the whole "not examining the morality of actions of war" part of things.

 

The morality of war should really be debated from a 20,000 foot view, not at a troop level. Kyle had rules of engagement. By
all accounts he embraced them.

 

Here was your post that touched off this digression, Xan.

Explain it for me.