Today in America many of us have become sheep, following whatever the

Rating: 10/10 (19 May 2015)

Today in America many of us have become sheep, following whatever the media tells us. Much like hippies in the days of the Vietnam war we criticize violence but do nothing to help anyone.
Let me start by saying that it's sick to see how many people are insulting a man who not only put his life on the line for his country, but also died while trying to help people in pain. Chris Kyle never "loved" killing as people seem to think, or he would have been one of the soldiers we've heard about before convicted of war crimes and he would not have left the service. The fact of the matter is the people Kyle killed were confused individuals raised on violence who would have killed American soldiers at any cost which likely would've resulted in them killing themselves. It should be noted not all of the Iraqis were depicted as savage killers, for example the family in their home clearly suffered from the violence of those around them.
People love to talk bad about the military but are never appreciative of the fact that without the people we have, who chose to serve in our military, we all would not have the freedoms we do today. This country was built by patriots not afraid to fight for what is right. Today we enjoy the comfort that our military gives us and constantly complain about the government. Of course the government isn't perfect but everyone just can't be jumping on the band wagon and disrespecting our soldiers. If someone doesn't agree with a war, that is perfectly fine. But don't disrespect people who would die to keep you alive because you won't do it yourself. Many countries force military service, but our military consists solely of those who genuinely want to serve.
The word "Murder" needs to stop being used in this film because just because someone doesn't like something that happened in a war does not make it murder. When someone lets a bomb off to kill civilians or does what the Nazi's did that is murder. However when an armed soldier kills an armed opponent that is not murder. It is terrible that Kyle had to kill a child, and Kyle felt terrible about doing it. But if he had not done it others would have died. That child was raised on a skewed idea that all westerners are bad and should die, and this thinking is not just about soldiers they want death for all of us. That child's death is on his parents hands. It would be different if our military was sent there to kill everyone like for example what occurred in Bosnia with ethnic cleansing. Then people would have reason to kill military occupying their country. But there was never any direct threat to civilians so they have no right to attack soldiers.
In regards to the film as a movie Clint Eastwood gave us a masterpiece as usual. And Bradley Cooper may have given his best performance yet. Not to much violence where it was just an action movie, and a good depiction of human emotion. It should be noted families with someone in the service have always faced difficulties, and this film does a good job of depicting that.