Comments on: Chris Kyle, RIP

By: Bookworm Room » Obama: it’s not just what he says, it’s what he doesn’t say

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:41:38 +0000

[...] the lines of Ron Paul’s execrable statement about living and dying by the sword. (And we know how stupid that is in this context.) Given half a moment and a bully pulpit, Obama would have dressed up Chris Kyle, [...]

By: Jane K

Jane K — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:38:22 +0000

When I first saw the news yesterday, I called my husband and said “Chris Kyle has been murdered,” and his response was a quiet “oh my gosh.” He didn’t ask who. We travel to my home in TN a couple of times a year, and for a LONG time now, I’ve read to him as he drives. We read his book on a trip in May of last year, and felt as if we knew him when we finished it. We also watched him on ‘Stars Earn Stripes.’ He seemed to be a wonderful man, and my heart breaks for his family.
Added to that, both Vinny and Danny have given me more to worry about. I am just glad that my father, a Pearl Harbor vet, is not alive to see what this once great nation has become.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:18:02 +0000

All throughout history, war has been the rule, not the exception. We Americans will discover this, as Pax Americana draws to its end. Our past 70 years of relative peace has been merely a hiccup in history.
I had dinner recently with an old friend. He is a closet conservative. His spouse is a classic flaming Lefty. Of course, our dinner conversation devolved into politics, particularly the issue of gun violence. What struck me during our conversation was how her world view was based on an idealized dream.
“I refuse to live in fear”, she kept saying…despite that their relative wealth assured them that they were living in one of the safest areas of the Twin Cities. Other people, of course, are not so lucky. My response is that I try to accept and adapt to the world as it is, not as I wish it would be.
That being said, I believe that I detected in her a realization that her idealized world view was less and less tenable and that reality was beginning to puncture her bubble. All of us at the table agreed, war…a big war…was coming.

By: Robert Arvanitis

Robert Arvanitis — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:40:09 +0000

From “Jeremiah Johnston ” — Among the Native Americans, a tribe’s greatness is figured on how mighty its enemies be.

By that measure, the “Devil of Rahmadi” was a great man.

By: vinny

vinny — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:39:52 +0000

Strange story. Makes me wonder about conspiracies involving disarming vets and using PTSD as a pretext.