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Well, Mark, after Nuremberg (or My Lai) it is expected that soldiers

will be held accountable.
But you've put up a red herring.
I know that to go to war is to sign up to kill. A soldiers job, quite obviously, is to defeat the enemy, killing him if necessary.
Fine with that, assuming it's a justifiable war.
But this was a film about an individual. A guy who killed (unlike the examples by Road Warrior, a sniper SEES his adversary, sees him die) several hundred human beings. Who volunteered for FOUR tours of duty. Of course he was being glorified: we were told a story about how he saved his brother from bullying, under a philosophy from his Dad (that goes beyond trite, doesn't it?). His brother, a Marine, is later shown as an overwrought basket case; why was that depiction included?

I don't like being manipulated and that's exactly what this film was doing. It is propaganda, pure and simple. Kind of like "Dirty Harry" glorifying a cop that did a lot of killing, too.


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