Adbusters: Chris Kyle – The painful home truth of America’s military psyche
Chris Kyle [author of “American Sniper” .. “the most lethal sniper in US military history”] is a symbolically perfect representative of US citizenship. Cowboy, Texan, father of two, he did four tours of Iraq and tallied at least 160 confirmed kills while on duty .. In American Sniper, insurgents die with regularity every fire fight, but you can count the number of American casualties on two hands, and each American death or injury is gut-wrenching and memorable .. For a time, Kyle fulfilled the US fantasy of superhuman strength and justice. But then, in early 2013, he died – not on a tour of Iraq but on a gun range, when Eddie Ray Routh, a fellow Iraqi vet with PTSD, snapped and shot him and another man several times .. Kyle’s death is just once instance among many, emphasizing the painful home truth of what happens when a country organizes its identity around violence, dehumanization and martial strength
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