COMMENT POSTED IN THE GUARDIAN ABOUT A STORY ON THE TRIAL OF EDDIE RAY ROUTH WHO KILLED CHRIS KYLE, AMERICAN SNIPER
John Chuckman
A sniper is not a soldier, any more than a drone operator
is. He's a cowardly killer hiding in ambush.
This sniper was also, virtually certainly, a psychopath. He
loved killing, and killed in record numbers.
The symptoms described for his killer suggest some degree of
paranoid schizophrenia.
Of course, the military provides a welcome home for both
types. It always has. Where else do you get to kill and commit acts of savagery
in large numbers and be praised and even rewarded for it?
These recent American wars represent no principle, and they
defend nothing but the self-assumed right of America's establishment to tell
people around the planet how to order their lives.
These are some of the dirtiest colonial wars in history, the
work of a great bully wrapped in a flag who spouts nonsense about rights and
democracy he doesn't even understand.
