Likely??? How many people have served in our current wars and how many have died? I think Rumsfeld pointed out that you were more likely to get shot in DC than a US trooper in Iraq.
Moore is wrong to call anyone who sacrifices and joins up, volunteers, a coward. I despise the guy. But, the point about snipers has history from the 'good old days' many of us often pine for. Our grandfathers thought a sniper a vile thing. They just did. This is why I am interested to see if the movie conforms with the book because, at the end of the day, Kyle shot nearly 200 people he, by his book, considered less than human and we sent him there and what he did in our name did not serve to give MM or any of us one ounce more of freedom. If anything, the way we have allowed the wars to be fought, our liberty has been reduced. That's not Kyle's fault. It is ours. By trying to make the filthy job we sent him to do 'noble' and 'in defense of freedom' we do not serve his memory or sacrifice any honor. Our soldiers, our cops, those who sacrifice the most, are doing so while we pile more and more expectations on them that make their jobs a LOT harder than they need be. If we fought the Iraq war to win, snipers would barely be part of the conversation. They wouldn't have been needed much at all in the face of massive use of the force we possess to actually win at war. As is, we tried to make it 'clean' with predictable results. We saw this movie before in Vietnam and Korea; the waste of US lives and treasure.
Kyle is a symptom. We want to celebrate him, call everyone a hero who fought for our freedom to salve over how much we wasted their sacrifice by not letting them do the damn job they thought they were sacrificing for. They did what we asked. Look at what we asked them to do; "Go kill people, Kyle. Nothing will come of it that serves the nation but, go do it anyway."
