{"id":24818,"date":"2015-01-19T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T20:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24818"},"modified":"2015-01-19T15:08:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T20:08:58","slug":"have-we-forgotten-that-we-need-to-protect-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24818","title":{"rendered":"Have We Forgotten That We Need To Protect Ourselves?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/01\/19\/american-sniper-seth-rogen-michael-moore-jane-fonda-and-other-stars-take-sides.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Beast<\/a> posted a story today about the controversy surrounding the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Film\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">movie<\/a> &#8220;<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">American<\/a> Sniper.&#8221; We have all heard at least some of the tweets attacking the movie, and I would like to ask a few questions.<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone explain to me the difference between what a sniper does and a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Drone attacks in Pakistan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">drone attack<\/a>? Has it occurred to the critics of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sniper\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sniper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">snipers<\/a> that they are assigned jobs and targets by their military (and civilian in the case of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"President of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">President<\/a>) superiors and are simply following instructions given to them? Is a sniper killing a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Terrorism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terrorism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">terrorists<\/a> as evil as a terrorist blowing up innocent civilians? Is it worth it to kill terrorists with the idea of preventing them from coming to America?<\/p>\n<p>The last paragraph of the article at the Daily Beast was a real picture of what the movie is about:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cFor me, and for Clint, this movie was always a character study about what the plight is for a soldier,\u201d said Cooper. \u201cThe guy that I got to know, through all the source material that I read and watched, and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Home video\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Home_video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">home videos<\/a>\u2014hours and hours\u2014I never saw anything like that. But I can\u2019t control how people are gonna use this movie as a tool, or what they pick and choose whatever they want. But it would be short-changing, I think. If it\u2019s not this movie, I hope to god another movie will come out where it will shed light on the fact of what servicemen and women have to go through, and that we need to pay attention to our vets. It doesn\u2019t go any farther than that. It\u2019s not a political discussion about war, even\u2026It\u2019s a discussion about the reality. And the reality is that people are coming home, and we have to take care of them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Clint Eastwood, for making this movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Beast posted a story today about the controversy surrounding the movie &#8220;American Sniper.&#8221; We have all heard at least some of the tweets attacking the movie, and I would like to ask a few questions. 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