Posted on 01/19/2014 9:17:04 AM PST by Hacksaw
As the war in Afghanistan winds down, and as the American public is increasingly “war weary” (a phrase I find fascinating since at any given time only 0.6 percent of Americans are in uniform, and the vast majority of Americans have endured not one single second of sacrifice for the war effort since 9/11), anti-military and anti-American sentiment may be rediscovering its Vietnam-era voice. The vehicle for the latest two minutes’ hate is a bit curious, however. Lone Survivor tells the story of a SEAL mission gone wrong and the resulting firefight where a small band of SEALs displayed remarkable courage under fire. But they showed more than courage. An act of humanity sealed their fate — the decision to free Afghan civilians that stumbled into their path. With their own lives on the line, they obeyed American rules of engagement, obeyed the laws of war, and conducted themselves with honor (with one SEAL posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor).
So how do some in the left-wing press write about this movie? Here’s L.A. Weekly:
"These four men were heroes. But these heroes were also men. As the film portrays them, their attitudes to the incredibly complex War on Terror, fought hillside by bloody hillside in the Afghan frontier with both U.S. and Taliban forces contributing to an unconscionably high civilian body count, were simple: Brown people bad, American people good."
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I’m going to see it this week, even if I have to go alone.
I’m going to see it this week, even if I have to go alone.
Saw it and even posted a link on FR to the movie.
The ROE were incredibly stupid.
THAT is what got these men killed
Macrus kind of lucked out that the pashtun villager took him in.
FUBO! Barack Obama has these men wandering with no real backup.
I went and saw it yesterday with my 22 yo son. It is the most remarkable war movie ever made. And it will leave you SEETHING after watching our guys honorably following the ROE set out by our “commanders” and politicians. I’m still boiling mad about it.
I'm usually not one for movies given the junk that is usually promoted, but this would be one I would see. The last movie I saw was Vin Diesel's latest "Riddick" movie which the critics hated (too macho, etc...) and of course was a great movie.
Thank God for the internet - if the legacy media was my only news source I would wonder if everyone had gone full commie-lib.
You know we’ve got the commie DemocRATS on the run when they have to throw the race card into a movie review. Communists are losers. They’ve always been losers. Eventually, the population figures out the game and the communists fall.
BTW: I find it ironic that “Lone Survivor” was pushed out of the number one spot this week by a black comedian saying, “You’re white! You’re white! You don’t fight!” Hmmmm.
I thought the planning was stupid. first as one seal said, it had too many moving parts. Secondly, why situate the team in an area where communications are blocked by a mountain?
good idea, I’ll take my 23 year old son.
identify the detractors , egg their houses
To the left it is an outrage to portray anyone in the American military as patriotic, decent or brave. Thats why all military conflicts must be portrayed as motivated by racism or greed.
Saw it.
The most heartbreaking part was when the Seals decided to let the three sheperds go knowing full well that they had just signed their death sentence.
Really “brown people bad America people good?”..did this guy watch the movie? It starts with talban killing “brown people” and its “brown people” that save that Lone Survive American.....The final shot is a real photo the of the Lone Survivor America and the brown person the save him ..
They had no back up.
The Rules of Engagement help them and us, the Pentagon gets some things right.
Americans do not willfully murder innocent unarmed kids and old men/non combatants.
People would not volunteer for a military that expects that.
Navy SEALs do not hold their lives as more sacred than those of anyone else.
Their job involves risk; their moral code is not like that of “The Reservoir Dogs”, murdering witnesses.
They would not endanger their souls, and they are working for the American government, regardless of journalists anti military inflammatory stance, the United States has a moral code, the military one dictated by experts at the Pentagon.
If journalists would care to point this out, fine, but the SEALs are not as dictated to by journalists as they are the military command.
Saw this awesome movie twice already.
Both time, I don’t a man in the room wasn’t crying about half way through the movie.
None of us stood up to leave until the credits finished.
Sobering.
You know that part with the sheperds..the thing is, one of those three could as just as easily been the guy that save him in the end..that the bitch of making that call, you never know..
Truth is I would of tied them up and left them. Maybe take one with me to let go later once I’m near out to go back and save his buddys
See it my dear.
Take napkins.
I couldn’t finish my popcorn.
Yep and before that “I care about you! I care about you and you too!”
OK, no. Commanders are not evil and trying to kill their guys. Certainly not as a rule. Our guys were killed by the Taliban.
Any military guy needs to know that when he does his job, facing imminent death for our country, that he is not endangering his soul.
They were not going to murder those people, it was just a passing thought. The radios were expected to work. It was a bad mission.
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