For proglodytes, the narrative always trumps facts. This is why debate with them is a total waste of time. That leaves only one way to deal with them.
Bingo. From the article, I present to you the narrative:
More fundamentally, treating Kyle as a patriot and ignoring any other possibility allows Americans to ignore the consequences of invading a country that had no weapons of mass destruction, had nothing to do with 9/11, and had no meaningful ties to Al Qaeda (our invasion, of course, changed that).