Posted on 01/02/2015 4:24:58 AM PST by Kaslin
I bought the book earlier this week, because I wanted to see how the author saw things and I am afraid the movie will be Hollywood-ized. So far, it’s an excellent book.
Hey dumba**, it's a movie about Chris Kyle, not the politics of the Iraq war.
Turkeys like
In the Vallay of Elah
and
Rendition
and
The Green Zone
and etc etc...
I’ll be starting the audiobook of Lone Survivor this week, and American Sniper next week.
I get to listen to loads of audiobooks during my 12-hour shifts.
Really? I do not think it means what you think it means.
Man·i·chae·an noun \ˌma-nə-ˈkē-ən\\ˈma-nə-ˌkē\
1: a believer in a syncretistic religious dualism originating in Persia in the third century a.d. and teaching the release of the spirit from matter through asceticism
2: a believer in religious or philosophical dualism
You really need to study some philosophy/theology.....as Aristotle stated (and he was the Father of Logic),: people are political/social animals.
Everything is political....can’t separate any social actions and politics. Just like Faith and Reason can’t be separated-—else you get irrational ideologies like islam. Islam throws out Reason (Natural Law).
BTW, ALL movies are political. Every movie puts out “perceptions” of Reality. All people who make movies have a bias, an agenda. And all movies affect emotions and perceptions.
This Eastwood movie obviously goes against the Hollywood agenda (Satanic Worldview) that is being forced on our children and in so-called “Just” Law.
Also, all films are propaganda, because they are designed to propagate a message. The only reason all movies are political is because a society that does not rest in God has to "rest" in itself, and so the messages of such a society are political rather than theological. Everything has been political since Hegel.
I just finished Unbroken on a trip back from South Carolina. Put it on you list.
Thanks for the tip, I think I have Lone Survivor in the Kindle, will check for it. And lucky you! Getting to listen while working!
Just checked, I have it! Sweet! Nice long weekend of working and reading!
God willing I will purchase the book —to honor the man and his widow. and the movie as much to send a message to that lost soul forever wandering Ventura highway seeking widows to haul into court .
Read the book when it first came out. I loved the way they interspersed his wife’s comments in there. It gave you more of a feel how the whole family dealt with his deployments. These are real people with real families living everyday lives and trying to keep it together so the country stays safe.
Here is some video of a Blackwater sniper in action during the Mehdi revolt in Najaf, Iraq. It was called a “target rich environment”, and if he was an average marksman, you can figure about 1 in 4 shots fired hit an enemy (in the open). In that he was a former Marine sniper, probably a little over 1 in 2.
Do a count of how many bullets he fired. Do the math.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7TRP-d5h2Q
Exactly - the politics drove the meat of the story (the reason men like him were needed and put to use along with the psychological conundrums they entail) and remain a whole different facet.
Spot on movie critic shows IQ.
And good grief are they bad! We rented "Fury" last night on Amazon Prime and afterward Amazon had about two dozen "Recommended" movies, all of the "uncorked" GWB vintage concerning Iraq. Since they were free with Amazon Prime, we watched a bit of about half a dozen of them. I say again, good grief they were so bad, it's no wonder they were free... and even then they weren't worth it.
“It’s just pathetic that a film that doesn’t strike a partisan note is somehow political by being non-political.”
The non-reporting by the alphabet networks is a daily political statement.
Shouldn’t you be working for 12 hrs though???
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