{"id":7949,"date":"2015-01-22T03:23:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T03:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7949"},"modified":"2015-01-22T03:23:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T03:23:14","slug":"sniper-wasnt-about-reasons-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7949","title":{"rendered":"'Sniper' wasn't about reasons for war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Zack Beauchamp has written on\u00a0Vox.com\u00a0that the film “American Sniper” whitewashes the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, suggesting that it was in response to the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

Well …<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/1\/21\/7641189\/american-sniper-history<\/p>\n

I think I’ll chime in with one more comment about the film. Then I’ll let it rest.<\/p>\n

“American Sniper” is the story of one young man, Chris Kyle, and deployment through four tours of duty during the Iraq War. He was a Navy SEAL sniper, and he reportedly set some kind of kill record for U.S. military personnel while doing his duty.<\/p>\n

The film tells the most riveting story possible about Kyle’s emotional struggles with being away from his young family, the post-traumatic stress he suffered and the extreme danger to which he was exposed during all those tours of duty.<\/p>\n

I sat through the film and never once considered whether it told the complete story of the Iraq War and put the policy decisions under any kind of microscope. I do not believe that was director\/producer Clint Eastwood’s intention. I believe Eastwood wanted to tell Chris Kyle’s story as accurately and completely as possible and from what I’ve read from those who knew Kyle the best — including his wife Taya — Eastwood accomplished his goal.<\/p>\n

Zack Beauchamp’s assertion about the historical inaccuracy of “American Sniper” misses the essential point of the film.<\/p>\n

One young man did his duty, placed himself in harm’s way, came home, and sought to return to a normal life as a husband and father.<\/p>\n

Then his life ended in tragedy.<\/p>\n

That was the story I saw.<\/p>\n

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Zack Beauchamp has written on\u00a0Vox.com\u00a0that the film “American Sniper” whitewashes the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, suggesting that it was in response to the 9\/11 attacks. Well … http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/1\/21\/7641189\/american-sniper-history I think I’ll chime in with one more comment about the film. Then I’ll let it rest. “American Sniper” is the story of one … Continue reading 'Sniper' wasn't about reasons for war<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[369,729,968,1029,2334,3226,3764,4271,4526,5143,5329],"class_list":["post-7949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-military-news","tag-american-sniper","tag-bradley-cooper","tag-chris-kyle","tag-clint-eastwood","tag-iraq-war","tag-navy-seals","tag-ptsd","tag-sienna-miller","tag-taya-kyle","tag-vox-com","tag-zack-beauchamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}