Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” shows why America goes to war

Chris Kyle, Navy SEAL
Chris Kyle, Navy SEAL

John Nolte explains why so many people are going to see it.

He writes:





“American Sniper” is refreshingly told only from Kyle’s point of view. He reminds a doubting comrade that we’re fighting these “evil f*****g savages” (terrorists) in Iraq so we don’t have to fight them in San Diego. And Eastwood doesn’t flinch from showing these evil f*****g savages for the evil f*****g savages they are. You won’t soon forget watching terrorist mastermind Zarqawi’s chief enforcer, a monster nicknamed The Butcher, slowly torture and murder a young boy with a power drill.





This movie made $90 million on its opening weekend. Why aren’t there more movies like this made in Hollywood?

I’m a big fan of war movies – have been since I was a kid. I like war movies that tell the stories of famous battles a lot, but my favorites are movies that show why we have to fight, and the fundamental goodness of fighting evil on the battlefield, when we are threatened by enemies who cannot be dealt with any other way. My favorite war movies are the ones where there are clear-cut villains, like the German Nazis or the Japanese Imperialists or the North Korean communists. I think Islamic extremists belong in there. Why are people so cautious about celebrating our armed forces for confronting evil as clear-cut as any we have had to face in the past?

I really don’t know what’s gone wrong with this country when we celebrate artists, musicians, actors and athletes more than people in the military, the police and the clandestine services. When I was a young man, I would spend hours making and building model jet fighters and drawing pictures of all kinds of military vehicles. Model jet fighters hung from my ceiling. I had maps of all the allied advances during World War 2 on my wall. I read books like this one, which tells the story of every man who won the medal of honor in World War 2. And when I got older, I read military history and military biographies. For me, the idea of stopping a violent evil person has always been a good thing.

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5 thoughts on “Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” shows why America goes to war”

  1. Thanks for sharing this post. I want to see this movie very much. What is your favorite WW2 movie? Is there a specific battle you find most interesting?

    For me the answers are “Patton” as the favorite WW2 movie, and The Battle of Midway as the battle I find most interesting.


    1. 1. The Longest Day
      2. The Great Escape
      3. O.S.S.
      4. Midway
      5. Patton
      6. The Man Who Never Was
      7. Memphis Belle

      I am most interested in D-Day, Normandy breakout, the Battle of the Bulge.


  2. I haven’t seen the movie yet but when the book came out I read it all in one sitting and pulled an all nighter. I’m a Marine veteran of Iraq and why I loved the book so much was because it tells the story of the War in Iraq beyond the pundits and talking heads as one who participated and still hold to values of family, service to country, etc. I hope the movie will still continue to do well in the weeks to follow.


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