American Sniper Archives - BSNEWS https://bsnews.info/tags/american-sniper/ News You Won't Find on BBC or ITN Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:17:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://bsnews.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cropped-truth1-55x55.jpg American Sniper Archives - BSNEWS https://bsnews.info/tags/american-sniper/ 32 32 49333625 Killing Ragheads for Jesus https://bsnews.info/killing-ragheads-jesus/ https://bsnews.info/killing-ragheads-jesus/#respond Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:17:09 +0000 http://bsnews.info/?p=9712 The innate barbarity that war and violence breed is justified by a saccharine sentimentality about the nation, the flag and a perverted Christianity that blesses its armed crusaders. This sentimentality, as Baldwin wrote, masks a terrifying numbness. It fosters an unchecked narcissism. Facts and historical truths, when they do not fit into the mythic vision of the nation and the tribe, are discarded. Dissent becomes treason. All opponents are godless and subhuman. “American Sniper” caters to a deep sickness rippling through our society. It holds up the dangerous belief that we can recover our equilibrium and our lost glory by embracing an American fascism.

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