{"id":10509,"date":"2015-01-24T18:36:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T18:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=10509"},"modified":"2015-01-24T19:04:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T19:04:41","slug":"hollywood-uses-american-sniper-to-destroy-history-and-create-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=10509","title":{"rendered":"Clint Eastwood’s \u2018American Sniper\u2019: Major Piece of U.S. Government Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hollywood uses \u2018American Sniper\u2019 to destroy history and create myth<\/strong><\/h2>\n

John Wight
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The moral depravity into which the US is sinking is shown by American Sniper glorifying the exploits of a racist killer receiving six Oscar nominations, whereas \u2018Selma\u2019 depicting Martin Luther King\u2019s struggle against racism has been largely ignored.<\/p>\n

American Sniper is directed by Clint Eastwood, and tells the story of Chris Kyle, a US Navy Seal who served four tours of duty in Iraq as a sniper credited with 160 confirmed \u201ckills\u201d, and earning him the dubious honor of being lauded the most lethal sniper in US military history.<\/p>\n

Played by Bradley Cooper, in the movie Kyle is an all-American hero, a Texas cowboy who joins the military out of a sense of patriotism and a yearning for purpose and direction in his life. Throughout the \u2018uber-tough\u2019 selection process, Kyle is a bastion of stoicism and determination, willing to bear any amount of pain and hardship for the honor of being able to serve his country as a Navy Seal \u2013 America\u2019s equivalent of the Samurai.<\/p>\n

The personal struggle he endures as a result of what he experiences and does in Iraq is not motivated by any regrets over the people he kills, including women and children, but on his failure to kill more and thereby save the lives of American soldiers as they go about the business of tearing the country apart, city by city, block by block, and house by house.<\/p>\n

If American Sniper wins one Oscar, never mind the six it\u2019s been nominated for, when this annual extravaganza of movie pomp and ceremony unfolds in Hollywood on February 22, it will not only represent an endorsement of US exceptionalism, but worse it will be an insult to the Iraqi people. In the movie they are depicted as a dehumanized mass of savages \u2013 occupying the same role as the Indians in John Wayne Western movies of old \u2013 responsible for their own suffering and the devastation of their country, which the white man is in the process of civilizing.<\/p>\n

Anything resembling balance and perspective is sacrificed in American Sniper to the more pressing needs of US propaganda, which holds that the guys who served in Iraq were the very best of America, men who went through hell in order to protect the freedoms and way of life of their fellow countrymen at home. It is the cult of the soldier writ large, men who in the words of Kyle (Bradley Cooper) in the movie \u201cjust want to get the bad guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201dbad guys\u201d are, as mentioned, the Iraqis. In fact if you had just arrived in the movie theatre from another planet, you would be left in no doubt from the movie\u2019s opening scene that Iraq had invaded and occupied America rather than the other way round.<\/p>\n

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