Ive sat here for awhile worried about re kicking a hornets nest, but I cannot in the spirit of true intellectual honesty refrain from posting this status. My initial post about American Sniper, and by extension Chris Kyle, was misinformed and incorrect. I made a rush to judgement based on incomplete evidence, and I would like to apologize. While I am still disturbed by Chris Kyles views on Iraqis, enemy combatants, and killing in general, after the amount of interviews I have watched with him, and the number of articles I have read describing the man in life, I cannot continue with my previous assertions and conclusion. https://youtube/watch?v=VI8dnM2On3Y This video is better than the Conan interview. Touches on more controversial topics and tough questions. Gives a better impression of the man in general in my opinion. In this video, at least to my own interpretation (which is always subject to criticism), I do not see an enjoyment or relish at killing. Kyle states that he talks about killing as a way of grabbing attention, which while it might be a flawed, ill thought out attention grabber that makes him seem like a monster, certainly seems to have worked. I see more resignation and a recognition of the necessity of his job more than I see a true desire to end lives. Furthermore, based on this interview and others, it is clear that his motivation to end others lives is not simply to kill, but to protect the soldiers in his team and under his command, as he very clearly states. This paints a very different picture from the quotes that I found on the internet previously. I would encourage everyone to watch this interview and his interview with Conan. Like I said earlier in the status I am still disturbed by the ease that Kyle, the newscaster here, and Conan all discuss his targets and the killing of enemy combatants To sum up; I rushed to judgement. I was wrong. And I really wish there was a way for to personally apologize to each military persons face that I offended with my previous status. I still worry that the movie glorifies and turns the man into something he wasnt. I still worry that the movie does not focus enough on his life after the war, and both the positive and negative things that apparently happened in his life after his deployments, (source below) and I still do not agree that killing or indifference to killing should be glorified in American society. Explained, yes. But glorified? Never. But the military ideals of duty, honor, and responsibility shown by most everyone in the Armed Forces, and it seems by Chris Kyle, should certainly be respected and emulated. Criticisms of my point of view are always welcome. I know I will probably anger as many people with this status as I did my last one, but I believe this evidence speaks more honestly to the man Chris Kyle was then the quotes from his book, and I feel an obligation to admit that I am wrong. I would also like to get up on a soapbox for a brief moment just to say one thing: I believe it is okay to be wrong. And some might consider that statement as an all too obvious means of justifying my inaccurate picture of Chris Kyle previously, but I really believe that it is true. Being wrong is okay. PERSISTING in willful ignorance is not okay. I have done my best to correct my ignorance, and will continue to try to correct it if I have missed something that disproves this status. npr.org/2015/01/23/379130915/american-sniper-exposes-unresolved-issues-about-the-iraq-war
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:51:13 +0000
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