Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

War involves doing some awful, illegal shit. The kind of mind that will do the work you and I wouldn't usually isn't a necessarily sane one. It's hardly surprising many guys in Kyle's line of work hold some pretty fucked up points of view. They work in a profession that arguably one has to be kind of nuts to enter, and if they weren't nuts going in, they become so after being in war. We need people willing to put themselves in that crucible. That some will do awful shit is not unexpected. Cost of war.

Agree completely, but (a) we shouldn't glorify the Chris Kyles of the world -- they are the collateral damage of going to war, and (b) when we decide to use military force, we are decided not only to kill foreigners and blow up their stuff, but also to turn more Americans into Chris Kyles, and we ought to own up to this. Pretending that he is a saint is an exercise in massive denial that's not fair to those who serve.