Chris Kyle must have been crazy

Rating: 5/10 (7 June 2015)

The main thing that I derived from "American Sniper" is that Iraq War damaged Chris Kyle even more than he already was. From what I've read, Kyle called the Iraqis savages. After serving several tours there, he came back more screwed up than ever. It's hard to tell exactly what sort of position the movie is taking about the war (Clint Eastwood claimed that it's an anti-war movie). What should be of concern is that large numbers of people want to hear absolutely no criticism of Kyle. I recently read about a woman who wrote something critical of him, and a bunch of people verbally attacked her, writing threatening things on her Twitter feed (even going so far as to say that Kyle died serving his country, when in reality he got shot dead on a shooting range by a disturbed ex-Marine).
In the end, we must never forget what a terrible decision the invasion was. Thousands of dead Americans, possibly a million dead Iraqis, and Iraq is now overrun by ISIS.