How is a guy who kills people from a distance a hero?

Rating: 1/10 (10 January 2015)

I have read multiple reviews here calling the guy a hero. Why? Because he was an American killing people in their own country illegally? Most of the reviews that love this movie are from Americans who just seem to carry on about the heroic man due to national pride. There is no evidence other than his own word that he didn't kill many unarmed civilians in reality, but we are supposed to believe his word.
What a coincidence that the kid he doesn't kill has a bible. More American southern style Christian propaganda too. I'm from the same western country and not religious, but still the glaring hypocrisy and contrived bits like that stood out. I really think someone played with the truth a little for the child carrying a bible bit. Calling people protecting their own country savages also doesn't help your cause. Especially when tens of thousands of unarmed civilians were killed during the real war in the middle east and their families have no recourse.
Yet here they make out that the "other side" has no empathy and doesn't see from a different perspective. Any wonder this movie will be so popular when many American's would still high five individuals who abused people at Gitmo (who had no trial and were mostly only protecting their own country). Mostly released after the pictures of their abuse came out (under the radar too like a country with empathy would do- sarcasm)..