I have more respect for a giant pile of dog shit than Max Blumenthal.
Via Noah Rothman:
… “I haven’t seen American Sniper, but correct me if I’m wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul,” Blumenthal wrote smugly on his Twitter account. “[T]he whole film’s appeal seems to derive from the latent racism that led America into Iraq.”
He cites a portion of the film (reproduced in the movie’s two-minute trailer) in which Kyle is forced to pull the trigger on a pre-adolescent Iraqi child who is tasked by his mother with smuggling a grenade into a column of advancing Marines. Kyle is later forced to dispatch the boy’s mother as well when she declines to mourn her fallen son and instead attempts to execute the task at which he failed.=
“John Lee Malvo, another mass murdering sniper, would not be glorified on prime time,” Blumenthal averred, confusing the young accomplice of the “D.C. Sniper” for the prime suspect in those killings, John Allen Muhammad.
When confronted with the tastelessness of his comparison by a Twitter user who contended that the impressionable Malvo was misled, Blumenthal indicted the military. “[H]e was brainwashed and stripped of his humanity,” Blumenthal scoffed. “But that never happened to our servicemen, of course.”