America The Murdering Psycho Sniper

Rabble Writer ^ | 1/19/15 | Caleb Howe

[absentee]

This weekend and into Monday morning, the usual cast of characters and character assassins have been spouting nonsense about America and Islam and war and soldiers, all in the wake of the record-smashing opening for the movie American Sniper. Michael Moore weighed in, as did Seth Rogen, to name two of many.

Among the words thrown around were "Nazi", "mass murderer", "coward" and even that most damning of epithets, Republican. That's what they have to say about a soldier. (Remember, as we go on through this story, that liberals love the troops. You'll have to keep reminding yourself because it will become increasingly difficult to believe.)

The material objection we are supposed to share comes in three parts.

Part One: he is not as close to people when he shoots them as other people are when they shoot. The blessed virtue of proximity, I suppose. By that reasoning, it is safe to conclude that Michael Moore finds the up close and personal beheading of a journalist to be far preferable to the long distance shooting of the beheader.

It is an addendum to this point that the reason it matters is that the sniper isn't as much at risk of being killed as maybe he ought to be. If you're going to war, expose your position and for heaven's sake don't wear body armor, or you might get a tsk tsk for not taking enough risk. Never you mind that these exact same people played moral scold over insufficient body armor not that long ago. Anything that might reduce your risk is "cowardly. All future military engagements, please take place in the nude using only staplers as weapons. For bravery.

[absentee]

Liberals are always wrong.

[vpintheak]

I’m doing my best to not call them liberals or progressives any more. They are nothing like either of those things.
They are by and large regressive control freaks.

[absentee]

“Regressive control freaks” ... that is perfect.

[tophat9000]

everybody loves their own snipers and hates the other guys snipers....

But question for the left..didn’t your hero Che, shooting prisoners in the back of the head, have a higher body count then Chris Kyle shooting active combatants?..

[dfwgator]

I noticed Michael Moore never said anything when “Enemy at the Gates” came out.

[piytar]

They are EVIL. And always wrong...

[DuncanWaring]

Don't remember him saying anything when this came out, either.

[DuncanWaring]

... that most damning of epithets, Republican.

I thought the most damning of epithets was "homophobe".

[absentee]

Synonyms.

[ctdonath2]

People don't like it when their enemies fight their enemies unfairly.

Of course, if you want to survive a fight to the death, you don't fight fair - and you don't care that your other enemies whine that you're not fighting fair.

[Sirius Lee]

Liberals are always wrong.

"Wrong" is a good word since it encompasses both the leftards who are evil, the leftards that are plug stupid, and leftards in the overlap.

[absentee]

That is exactly right ctdonath2. This just reveals the stupid ideas the regressives have about war in the first place.

[hawaiianninja]

I will follow your lead. :) “Regressive control freaks” is a very apt description.

[combat_boots]

OmG. A venn diagram.

[Sam Gamgee]

And for anyone that watched that movie, it is very dangerous being a sniper. If there is 1 or 2 of you within a mile radius and say a thousand or so of the enemy, I think that takes some bravery. If the enemy ever gets a whif of the general direction of your gunfire all hell will break lose in your direction from mortar, tanks, and high caliber guns - and there is no army company for you to take refuge in.