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Howellings / The Other American Sniper
The Other American Sniper
By Mark Howell
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Thanks, Mark. RIP Colonel Walsh. He took out actual criminals , not women and children. Below is an excerpt from a “Vice” interview with Michael Moore after the tweet kerfuffle. Below that is the link to the entire interview, if you so desire…I always look forward to your column because I always learn a something. Thanks.
“Snipers were first called sharpshooters or marksmen, they weren’t called snipers until World War I, and it was really the Germans in World War I who perfected the concept of the sniper, not the Allies. And then that really carried over. In WWII, I think you can look this up, but two thirds of all kills from snipers occurred from German and Japanese soldiers. And as the war went on the Russians figured it out and how to do it. What Eisenhower did in 1956, 1957—we had the US sniper school in Camp Perry in Ohio—and he closed it down.
People should practice saying it [we lost]. We will be better off in the future when we say we lost Vietnam, we lost Iraq, we lost Afghanistan.
Why?
I don’t know. I mean I’ve been doing some research this week. It remained closed for 30 years until Reagan reopened it in 1987 at Fort Benning. There was a lot of talk after Korea—a vet told me this story—saying that it just didn’t feel like the American way. Snipers are really needed by the invading force. As defenders, you know, there’s all kind of preying that goes on—like if we were actually attacked we would all, as such, become snipers, if you wanted to use that word. But when the liberators come, it’s the snipers that’s taking out the liberators. And that’s the confusion of course when you watch FOX News. I mean, talking about American Sniper —they’re talking about American soldiers as the liberators of Iraq! We didn’t liberate anything. In fact we made it worse, and we lost the war! Write that in the loss column. And people should practice saying it. We will be better off in the future when we say we lost Vietnam, we lost Iraq, we lost Afghanistan. Why do we invent this fairy tale about ourselves? It does no good, and it is only going to get us into more trouble in the future.
http://www.vice.com/read/exclusive-interview-michael-moore-on-american-sniper-sarah-palin-and-ptsd-261