Out of Pod Experience

i dunno if this si the original or a follow up, but

""My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse,"

source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vets-snipers-respond-to-michael-moores-tweets/

Essentually he called snipers cowards, and had to defend why he said that. I can;t seem to find the original tweet though

I don't know, the fact that that guy and the U.S. Army organization kept an official Killboard is a little... weird? Unprofessional? Video game-like?

It takes a whole army to run an army. People drive unarmored trucks up and down dangerous urban roads, 30 days a month. Other people go into people's homes with sketchy intel about what's really in there. A few guys sit behind a mud wall for weeks, not knowing the rural village people around, and not ever knowing if/when the smart guys on the other side might night attack them 10:1.

I don't know, keeping a sniper KB, and having it administratively confirmed up through the bureaucracy, seems a little f---ed up to me. And a little scary. Read the soldier literature coming from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars when you get a chance, ye boys. It's not like your grandpa's war.

Shocking to hear that upon travelling to the opposite hemisphere to invade a small country that posed absolutely no threat using a trillion dollar military the ungrateful natives wouldn't come and meet for battle in the open field.

Also iraq was nothing to do with Isis or terror, it was based on a hoax about wmds. It was probably one of the most secular countiries in the area and least likely to harbour terrorists or radicals, the same as the secular Syrian state now where women walk freely with hair uncovered and go to university but NATO tried to bomb out of existence on a false gas hoax (which has never been repeated since) and replace with another load of radicals.

The film was shite. American rubbish. Nothing special about a trigger happy yank

I knew I wouldnt have been disappointed by Eastwood and I wasnt. Certainly a powerful movie and it captures a lot from the bigger picture outside of the silver screen if you can see that far. Will definitely be in my collection of classics to watch with my kid in the future.

I don't think it was matter of one-upmanship but more of a declaration of "We're better than you, deal with it"

Brits are wary of Hollywood war film propaganda after the debacle that was U-571.

Actually, they did. They were simply routed in a matter of hours. If there's one thing the Islamic civilizations (such as they are) will never be good at, it's third generation warfare.

As for the movie itself, I thought it was powerful, although a bit lionizing of the guy, a bit too flashbacky, and somewhat loose with the facts. (among some of Kyle's more ludicrous claims in his book was having shot several people who were looting during the aftermath of Katrina [one of the many hurricanes that has destroyed the "city" of New Orleans] from the top of a football stadium)

Overall, I give it a 7/10. Eastwood delivers as he usually does, a film certainly worth your eight bucks.

Interesingly enough, when Israel faces the very same circumstances in Ghaza, they manage to kill a bit over 1 civilian per militant, rather than 25 civilians per militant as the USA do.

That doesn't spares that some American dude dared to scorn Israel for "killing too many civilians"...

Well, China owns pretty much everything in the US. Here is a bunch of them, touring London. Thinking about what to buy next.

Are you seriously comparing 'burning a prisoner to death in a cage and advertising it like dish soap', with run-of-the-mill wartime civilian casualties? Do I really need to point out how stupid that sounds?

When gutless Muslims use mosques as ambush positions and babies as human shields - resulting in said babies and mosques getting bombed to kingdom come - those insurgents and their civilian supporters are going to loudly scream 'Atrocity!' on CNN in a pathetic effort to win the PR war. Its still 100% bullshit. Doesn't matter if it coming from the bunghole of Iraqis, Palestinians, leftist 'journalists' on CNN - or red activists back home.

Most rational people realize that If smelly bearded men with AK-47s are using your rooftop/place of worship as a platform for shooting at American soldiers or aircraft - it might be a good idea to get your baby out of that particular house, before the Americans start shooting back.

The shocking bit which Kyle pointed out in his book, is that mothers were willingly putting their small children into the line of fire - or allowing themselves to be used as human shields. In which case....they simply got what was coming to them, because American lives came first.

The real question is.....how many babies/women would Ssabat Thraxx be hiding behind when he goes out to shoot at 'Murican soldiers? Two? Three? Why not a whole nursery? He might even get that slag Christine Amanpour to do a cable news special!