American Sniper

There is no doubt of what Chris Kyle did for our country and I am sad for his wife and children for the loss of their loved one, but not for one second do I believe that Kyle was in it for the patriotism.

Kyle was a self-professed cowboy who loved old John Wayne movies “especially the cowboy ones” who mostly referred to insurgents as “savages”. Not that they were savage in their tactics. They were savages. I wonder where he picked that up from? Kyle entered the military so he could kill people. Plain and simple.

I had an opinion of Kyle before going into this book and that didn't change. If anything, it got worse. His bragging of all his bar fights and good ole boy, aw shucks it's just cause I'm so tough and I'm a SEAL, it's what we do bullshit was grating. If being a SEAL means you have no self control in the civilian world we have problems.

It was a struggle to get through this. I looked for one ounce of compassion or humility but there was none here. He was in it for the kills.