{"id":143320,"date":"2015-02-03T17:47:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T17:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=143320"},"modified":"2015-02-03T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T17:47:12","slug":"american-sniper-humanizing-glorifying-mass-murderer-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/american-sniper-humanizing-glorifying-mass-murderer-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAmerican Sniper\u201d: Humanizing and Glorifying a Mass Murderer for the Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>American Sniper<\/em>\u00a0has been nominated for six Oscars, including best film and best leading actor; it has broken box-office records for war movies, and it\u2019s generating heated debate.<\/p>\n<p>Many who are praising the film say the movie is about him, not about the politics of the Iraq war. \u201cIt\u2019s a movie about a man, a character study,\u201d said lead actor Bradley Cooper. \u201cThe hope is that you can somehow have your eyes opened to the struggle of a soldier, as opposed to the specificity of the war.\u201d Others argue\u00a0American Sniper\u00a0is \u201cboth a tribute to the warrior and a lament for war,\u201d as the Associated Press reviewer wrote.<\/p>\n<p>BS . Regardless of the intentions of those making these claims, BS.<\/p>\n<p>This is a profoundly reactionary movie.\u00a0American Sniper\u00a0humanizes and glorifies Chris Kyle, an unrepentant Christian fundamentalist mass murderer who killed 160 Iraqis (supposedly the most \u201ckills\u201d by any U.S. soldier in history). Meanwhile, the movie demonizes and dehumanizes every single Iraqi (with the possible exception of one family), portraying them as evil terrorists and \u201csavages\u201d who deserve to die.<\/p>\n<p>By telling this story through Kyle\u2019s eyes and purported experience (and prettifying that story),\u00a0American Sniper\u00a0weaves a fable about the U.S. invasion of Iraq and its role in the world: America is a force for good. Whatever its mistakes, the U.S. sends its military to places like Iraq to try to protect the innocent and destroy evil. It promotes the outlook that only America and American lives count and anything goes to \u201cdefend\u201d them. This is the big lie on the big screen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/american-sniper-humanizing-and-glorifying-a-mass-murderer-for-the-empire\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Sniper\u00a0has been nominated for six Oscars, including best film and best leading actor; it has broken box-office records for war movies, and it\u2019s generating heated debate. Many who are praising the film say the movie is about him, not about the politics of the Iraq war. \u201cIt\u2019s a movie about a man, a character [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}