A Sniper's Precision View to A KillThe three quick shots off the fantail of the USS Bainbridge that terminated the piracy incident in the Indian Ocean early Sunday night made a number of points for various pointy-headed political pundits to chew on, cudlike, for a few weeks. But one they'll probably miss is the following: The three shots make clear to a wider public what has been clear to people who pay attention to such things -- we are in the golden age of the sniper.
He has become a kind of chivalric hero. He is the state, speaking in thunder, restoring order to the moral universe. Or he is civilization, informing the barbarians of the fecklessness of their plight. He is the line in the sand, the point of the spear, the man with the rifle, one of the few, the proud. He is also the intellectual of combat, in some ways, bringing a cool logic to what is normally hot, messy and exhausting.ad_icon
We vest in him the right to kill in our name and it seems, at least to some extent, we no longer hold it against him that he does so from a long way out, usually in darkness and silence. Instead, we wish him godspeed. He's no longer Lee Harvey Oswald. He's Carlos Hatchcock, the legendary Marine Corps sniper, or Chuck Mawhinney, who holds the Marine Corps sniper kill record in Vietnam, or the two posthumous Battle of Mogadishu Medal of Honor recipients, the Delta snipers Randy Shughart and Gary Gordon. And now, he is the Navy SEALs who shot the Somali pirates and saved Capt. Richard Phillips.Technology and necessity have combined to make the sniper the go-to guy in military operations, even given him a kind of glamour. - Washington Post
11 comments:
Nicely written.
Nothing like sniper porn to get a rise from a fanboy....,
Sycophants revel in their programming. The brainwashing the psychopathic entities have administered to American sycophants since a very young age, has them proudly waving the flag of their nation as "the greatest country on Earth," while vociferously avoiding real world facts: Theirs is a nation built on corruption and murder at all levels.
• Mass-murder is our international policy.
• Enforcement of psychopathic edicts by gun and incarceration are standard procedures at home.
• Endless taxation and regulation are the benevolent side of the psychopathocracy.
The sycophants kiss up to the images the psychopaths have planted in their minds. With servile devotion, sycophants reach for the handouts from their masters, oblivious to the source of the presumed benefits.
The modern formula for sycophant management is simple: Build roads, manufacture employment, extend credit, provide shopping opportunities, blast them with entertainment, maintain a welfare net, create the semblance of a justice system, pretend to have an election from time to time, provide grants for science, industry, arts "and other purposes" and the sycophants will grovel before the all-powerful psychopathocracy. If all this abundant benevolence fails to entrance and entrain the sycophants to the will of the psychopaths then fear, terror, wars and rumors of wars are the fallback policies of the ages.
There goes your lunch hour, eh, Craig?
CNu ... why you fuck with the man?
He was giving you props.
^ Actually, Craig didn't write those words, DV. Craig cut-and-pasted from the Washington Post Style section (my old stomping grounds).
Dude can cut-'n'-paste with the best of 'em.
Actually nah Mills. That was my fault.
Cat made it clear he did not write that.
As a matter of fact he text me to clear that shit up ASAP.
He finds the piece morally repugnant.
I find it kind of pussyfied myself. Kind of an extension of the "Israelization of America".
Where we make warrior heros out of nerds pushing buttons on vastly out-gunned natives.
White men playing God.
^ Cat who wrote that is big-time gun freak. (Also a macho novelist and two-fisted film critic.)
By that measure, you'd be what David, a two-fingered film critic?
With Haliburton and Blackwater both now based in Dubai.
The middle-men between the West and the Pirates being the moneymen in Dubai.
Dubai World Ports failing to gain control over American Ports.
Wouldn't an NWO influenced American have more to win in this game?
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