{"id":57740,"date":"2015-01-19T12:35:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T17:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57740"},"modified":"2015-01-19T12:43:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T17:43:22","slug":"american-sniper-and-appendage-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57740","title":{"rendered":"American Sniper and appendage envy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57741\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57741\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/American-Sniper-Movie-Review-Image-2-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"American-Sniper-Movie-Review-Image-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/American-Sniper-Movie-Review-Image-2-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/American-Sniper-Movie-Review-Image-2-500x187.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/American-Sniper-Movie-Review-Image-2.jpg 1217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I read Chris Kyle&#8217;s book on the day that it came out, in one sitting. It was that good. I haven&#8217;t seen the movie yet, though, mostly because I don&#8217;t get around so good any more, so I&#8217;m waiting for it to come out on my TV. But, I  guess I don&#8217;t have to see it to write a review of it, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/120763\/american-sniper-clint-eastwood-biopic-misrepresents-chris-kyle\">the Left<\/a> doesn&#8217;t seem bothered by the fact that they can review it from watching the trailer and I&#8217;ve seen the trailer several times.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been said that war is an ugly thing, but it&#8217;s not the ugliest of things. To continue John Stuart Mill&#8217;s quote; &#8220;<em>The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.<\/em>&#8221; That&#8217;s pretty much what we&#8217;re witnessing these days. Michael <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57734\">Moore&#8217;s Tweet<\/a> is just the tip of the ugliest of things. Every Leftist with a computer has taken to their key boards to disparage Clint Eastwood&#8217;s movie. <\/p>\n<p>Somehow, the examination of one soldier&#8217;s life (I know, Kyle was a SEAL and not a soldier) has forced every hippie in the country to examine their own manhoods, and they&#8217;re holding them cheap (thanks, Shakespeare). Of course, that&#8217;s why Kyle went to war &#8211; so that the hippies can wax endlessly about how much better they are than Kyle. Luckily, no one will believe them. Also, luckily, the hippies will always have someone to disparage who is willing to go and do the job that they don&#8217;t have the manhood to accomplish &#8211; but doing a job that needs to be done by someone.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason these &#8220;reviews&#8221; are given any public exposure is because of that &#8220;great divide&#8221; that we get to read about these days between the folks who give their lives to the defense of liberty and the rest. The rest squirm in their theater seats as they watch a better man than them portrayed on the screen and they recognize that they come up short in the comparison &#8211; so they take to the keyboards to recover some of their length. <\/p>\n<p>They also didn&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; why Walt Kowalski did what he did in another Clint Eastwood movie, Gran Torino. The concept of &#8220;manly men&#8221; goes right over their carefully coiffed heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Chris Kyle&#8217;s book on the day that it came out, in one sitting. 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