Watching “American Sniper” in Iraq
The movie “American Sniper” opened in Iraq but was pulled out of fear of demonstrations and violence:
But before it was yanked from the theater, one Iraqi man named Gaith Mohammed said that it played to full and enthusiastic crowds. “Some people watching were just concentrating, but others were screaming ”˜Fuck, shoot him! He has an IED, don’t wait for permission!!’” he said of one of the film’s many tense scenes.
“I love watching war movies because especially now they give me the strength to face ISIS,” he continued, saying he did not find anything anti-Arab about the film.
It’s apparently not that hard to see in Iraq, though, on computers.
By the way, I saw the movie in a theater the other evening. Excellent, as I had expected. Clint Eastwood is to be commended, and Bradley Cooper manages to accomplish the rare feat of seeming not to be acting at all. There isn’t a false note in his performance.
Clint’s up to almost $250M now, and I still hope he (eventually) reaches $1B. He’s already passed all other war movies of all time., and as Rush said on January 26:
“one Iraqi man named Gaith Mohammed said that it played to full and enthusiastic crowds. “……, but others were screaming ‘Fuck, shoot him! He has an IED, don’t wait for permission!!’” he said of one of the film’s many tense scenes.”
It’s eye opening to look through someone else’s prism. It isn’t always about us or the histrionics of American political jockeying.
Michael Moore: “Fuck..Shoot him!!” From a pesky A-Rab to an American warrior to dispatch an A-Rab Evil Doer. Does he know something you don’t, Comrade Mikey? Answer: You bet your Fat Azz.
” . . . reports have started to come out this week that reveal their often unexpected reactions.”
Why, does that author think:
” . . .shoot him! He has an IED, don’t wait for permission!!”
is an unexpected reaction?
I want to see a movie about the Counterinsurgency “Surge” and Anbar Awakening.
Leftist propagandists define the insurgents as champions of the Iraqi people and legitimate resistance to the occupation. Suffering caused by the insurgents is ascribed to the Americans. I imagine the Left adapted the template for the Viet Cong and NVA.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi people that are victimized define the insurgents as what they are: terrorists and murderers that prey on the Iraqi people.
The protests over “American Sniper” by the usual suspects reminds me of the statement by COL Nathan Jessup in “A Few good men.” They can’t handle the truth!
They want men to stand on the ramparts and protect them. They don’t want to admit it, but they need them there. Then when they find out they are rough men who know how to kill, it frightens them. They realize how inept and vulnerable they are. And they don’t like it. They need to think that they are better than those rough men. If they could man up and show some class, they might show a tiny bit of gratitude for the rough men like Kyle who protect them. But they are classless jerks with no grasp of reality and no ability to climb down off their moral high horses.
After watching the movie I concluded we have a great and good country and a rotten, weak and clueless elite.
There is still evil in the world and the Left doesn’t get it.
And I get sick thinking about the dead and wounded in Iraq and then Obama surrendering. That error -.compounded by the coming unforced error with Iran’s nukes – is going to cost the West dearly.
JJ: “They can’t handle the truth!”
Cornhead: “clueless elite.”
I’ll repeat the suggestion I made under Neo’s previous post about ‘American Sniper’. When the false narrative about the ‘why’ of Operation Iraqi Freedom is brought out to criticize the movie, don’t run away from it. Rather, seize the opportunity to correct it with this.
Interesting. Usually it’s the anti war Hollywood movies, tax free, that make it big overseas. They don’t have to fund their production costs merely off US theaters.
JJ’s observation about liberals links nicely with the observations of LTC (RET) David Grossman regarding wolves, sheep, and sheepdogs. The
liberals are the sheep, the wolves are the bad guys of every type, and the sheepdogs are the warriors, police, and firemen who place themselves in harms way protecting the sheep. Because the sheep dogs resemble the wolves in their capacity for, in some cases, lethal force the sheep fear and resent them. Look up Grossmans full description of this topic, it is well worth reading.
David Adair:
Please take a look at this, this, and this.