The hyper political society...........

Rating: 7/10 (30 January 2015)

I am retired US Navy. I am in the large majority of sailors that did not "see" combat. However I did 2 Persian Gulf deployments aboard a carrier and a one year ground deployment in Kuwait.
This story is what it is. To hyper politicize it is very disgusting in my humble opinion.
Those on the left are generating all kinds of hate towards Chris Kyle calling this story propaganda. Some of the far left are parroting hearsay about how Kyle was "redneck", racist, went on killing sprees, described the enemy as savages, and took out Hurricane Katrina Victims. The left constantly cries out that President Obama got Osama Bin Laden. Obama and Biden routinely remind us of that. The ironic thing is that the Navy SEALs were the ones who killed him.
Those on the right are pretty much in lockstep with the book and this movie. Talk radio constantly reveres the Chris Kyle story. Fox News constantly has Taya Kyle on the air and constantly airs Chris Kyle interviews prior to his death 2 years ago.
I'm here to take a neutral and apolitical stance. War is hell. Did we "need" to go into Iraq? There is no correct answer to that question. We did it, Chris Kyle believed in our mission, followed lawful orders, defeated the enemy with his sniper rifle, excelled at it, and saved American lives. He made the hard but correct choice to return to his family at the expense of his stellar Navy career.
I personally believe that this kind of story does need to be told and do need to be based on actual events. However, I have very mixed feelings about the actual Navy SEALs putting themselves in a "glamorous" and public eye so soon after their service with books and movies. I do think it is possible that some of it is ego, some of it is hyper political, some of it is for personal or financial gain.
I think that the active duty SEALs still out there carrying out missions unbeknownst to us do so with the thought of completing the mission by destroying the enemy with the utmost precision and intensity, return home with all their shipmates, hug their wives and kids, then turn around and do it all over again. These guys do not say "Look at me, I'm a Navy SEAL." The general public cannot nitpick the specifics of the Chris Kyle story. I as a retired sailor cannot nitpick his particular story. Only Chris Kyle and God must reconcile the events that took place.