Newt Gingrich Reminds Us Why We Loathe Him
January 20, 2015
Gingrich replies to Michael Moore’s criticism of “American Sniper”: “Michael Moore should spend a few weeks with ISIS and Boko Haram. Then he might appreciate@AmericanSniper. I am proud of our defenders.” U.S. snipers our are defenders? Are they perched atop a U.S. building ready to pick off some foreign invader of the United States? Of course not. Chris Kyle did not kill to defend any American. He did not kill for my “right to post some dumb ass s**t” about him, like I was told yesterday. He killed, by his own admission, because he thought that Iraqis were savages who deserved to die and because he liked killing them. He killed for his bloated ego, not to defend the United States.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

