Patriot Porn and the Celebration of Psychopathy

Rating: 1/10 (23 January 2015)

Patriot Porn and the Celebration of Psychopathy..... Yup, Hollywood just made another war-film.... (It seems as though producing the blockbuster Movie Of The War is now as much an integral component of the USA's murderous and insane Zionist-inspired foreign policy as the theft of oil, installation of Rothschild Central Banks, or privatization of water supplies.) Needless to say, we get the usual mix of re-written history, racism, and brain-rotting propagandist bullshit ....
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Iraq War veteran Brian Turner wrote : '' In American Sniper, Iraqis are called "savages," and the "streets are crawling" with them. Eastwood and his screenwriter Jason Hall give Iraqis no memorable lines. Their interior lives are a blank canvas, with no access points to let us in. I get why that is: If Iraqis are seen in any other light, if their humanity is recognized, then the construct of our imagination, the ride-off-into-the-sunset-on-a-white-horse story we tell ourselves to push forward, falls apart.... In American Sniper, Iraqi men, women, and children are known and defined only in relation to combat and the potential threat they pose. Their bodies are the site and source of violence. In both the film and our collective imagination, their humanity is reduced in ways that, ultimately, define our own narrow humanity.
....There's a scene — scenes, actually — in American Sniper where Chris Kyle struggles with the decision to shoot a child. Those scenes dredged up memories of Mosul and Baghdad, where I once heard the words ''You are authorized to shoot children'' come crackling over the radio. I also remember watching soldiers in my own platoon lob plastic water bottles filled with their own urine at village children who would run to us as we drove by — thirsty children who motioned with their thumbs to their mouths in a gesture pleading for water''.
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Sadly, this kind of pernicious indoctrination actually works...