Let me begin with something that may
seem pretty far afield, a film review 
in the New York Times
a couple days ago. 
It begins, I'll quote it, by ridiculing
America's coastal intelligentsia, 
which has busied itself with chatter
over little-seen art dramas 
while everyday Americans showed up
en masse for a patriotic, 
pro-family picture,
which broke all attendance records 
in its opening days. 
At the end of this quite laudatory
review, the reviewer mentions 
that there was another film
that opened the same time 
but with quite limited attendance,
Selma, which was timed for release 
with Martin Luther King Day. 
Well, what was the patriotic,
pro-family film that so entranced 
everyday Americans? 
It's about the most deadly sniper
in American history, 
a guy named Chris Kyle,
who claims to have used his skills 
to have killed several hundred people
in Iraq. 
And he wrote memoirs, and in
the memoirs he describes what the 
experience was like, so I'll quote him. 
His first kill, he said, was a woman
who walked into a street with a grenade 
in her hand as the Marines
attacked her village. 
He, Chris Kyle, killed her with
a single shot, and explains 
how he felt about it. 
I hated the damn savages I'd been
fighting, savage, despicable evil, 
that's what we were fighting in Iraq,
that's why a lot of people, 
myself included,
called the enemy savages. 
There was really no other way
to describe what we encountered there. 
The film, I read a lot of the reviews,
I haven't seen the film, incidentally, 
but I read reviews of it.
They varied. 
The New Yorker thought it was great. 
They kept to the cinematic values,
it's well done, you know, 
nice photographs and so on. 
There were others who
found it appalling. 
One of them was Jeff Stein. 
He's a former U.S. intelligence officer
who worked in Vietnam, and he wrote 
a very critical review
keeping to the content. 
And he also recalled a visit that
he made, he was invited to visit 
at a Marine base, to a clubhouse
for snipers, and I'll quote him, 
the barroom walls featured
white-on-black Nazi S.S. insignia 
and other Wehrmacht photos and regalia. 
The Marine shooters clearly identified
with the marksmen of the world's 
most infamous killing machine
rather than with regular troops. 
Well, going back to Chris Kyle, he
regarded his first kill as a terrorist, 
this woman who walked down the street
with a grenade when the Marines 
were attacking her village,
but we can't really attribute that 
to the mentality of the psychopathic
killer because we're all 
tarred with the same brush,
at least insofar as we tolerate 
or keep silent about official policy. 
And that mentality, there's very little
commentary about this incidentally, 
except for Amnesty International,
the ACLU and so on, the mentality 
helps explain why it's so easy
to ignore what is clearly 
the most extreme terrorist campaign
of modern history, if not ever, 
Obama's global assassination campaign,
the drone campaign, which officially 
is aimed at murdering people who are
suspected of maybe someday planning 
to harm us. 
If that's what they're suspected
of doing in the morning sessions 
with Brennan and so on,
then we blow them away. 
And I'd really advise you to read
some of the transcripts of the 
drone operators, they're hair-raising,
the guys who are sitting in front 
of computers, you know, in Las Vegas
or somewhere, I can't repeat it. 
Obama, you may recall, when he won
the Nobel Prize, said make no mistake, 
evil does exist in the world. 
And he's right, and he knows
exactly where to find it. 
