5 Things Chris Kyle And The 'Full Metal Jacket' Gunner Share In Common

Ingenious Press
Jan. 19, 2015

‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle and the fictional Helicopter Door Gunner from ‘Full Metal Jacket’ share several disturbing similarities.

This past weekend, millions of Americans shelled out a tenner (or more) to see ‘American Sniper’, the Clint Eastwood directed bio-pic of the deceased military sharpshooter Chris Kyle. Blue Pill Americans, or those who continue to espouse the illusary belief that the United States is the “greatest country in the world”, and that military service members are “heroes” no matter what they do, without doubt made up a majority stake of the cinema goers.

What can I say, the blue pill brigade love a good home-grown war hero story.

Except there is one little problem with that logic. Chris Kyle was not a hero. He was a one-man executioner of over one hundred Iraqis, whose only “crime” was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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