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bounty44 -> RE: You mean his apology wasnt real? (1/28/2015 1:49:38 AM)
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im not sure why/how your post here is in response to something I said. I surely didn't post anything in my own words that suggested chris kyle was a hero. in fact I said I found maher's point about ambiguity to be interesting.
also, though I didn't say this earlier, as I was reading the book, I didn't identify strongly, at least always, with chris kyle.
I don't think anything I posted by columnists particularly glamorized the military either, rather, they pointed out the very difficult and sometimes dirty necessity.
and I agree with an awful lot you said right here.
I know this though---one day I was out running with a friend from the basque country in spain nearby a bridge in Minneapolis, which was full of peace protestors. my friend made a sympathetic comment about them, and something critical about whatever conflict it was going on at the time that they were protesting.
I said to him, unless those people out there would refuse to raise a hand to defend their loved ones, or themselves, when being assaulted individually, then they are probably not quite the pacifists they like to think they are.
unless you can stand there and get your head bashed in like Gandhi's followers did to show up the british rule/oppression in india, then you carry a somewhat similar spirit as those who would actually go to where. it differs in degree perhaps, but not so much in kind.
I don't remember if I actually said this to him or not, but in retrospect I could have---he was married and had just had a baby---do you think you would use force, and deadly force at that if necessary, to protect your wife and baby from harm?
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