[gusopol3]

superhero, mending his ways after he's taken captive and sees firsthand the devastation his weapons cause.

gosh the trailers must be misleading, It looks like he's taking on the jihadists after the capture him in Afghanistan.

[aft_lizard]

Well the mending his ways part deals with his companies selling to both terrorists and America, in no ways was the movie ,that I could see, being anti-American, anti-Military or even anti-war. If anything it was anti-double dealing corporate greed.

[mewzilla]

FWIW....

'Iron Man' role no stretch

"I have a really interesting political point of view, and it's not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal," he said.

[Excellence]

His corporation didn't sell the weapons to the jihadists “on purpose.” He was not paying attention, and control of the corporation slipped into the wrong hands. It reminded me of the first Dark Knight Batman movie.
I enjoyed every minute of this movie. It had awesome special effects, moving moments, and yet kept it light most of the time. The robots were little scene stealers.
I will note here that I saw it in a digital theatre. I was not watching film, but a high definition movie off of a hard drive. The difference is the same as between regular DVD and high definition.

[A CA Guy]

It wasn't just seeing the devastation, it was that his own weapons seemed to be delivered into the evil Muslim's hands against innocent people when they were supposed to be only in the USA forced hands only.

Stark said that since they weren't seeming to control the weapons from going to bad people that it was better for him to retire the company from making weapons.

He had no problem with weapons, he had a problem with weapons getting into the hands of the enemy.
Later in the movie they explain that as well.

[Cronos]

he does — and he eliminates them...