Enough was enough. Why was "Gays in the Military," June 1, 2014, the most read post in the last 30 days, the last 7 days, and today. So finally today I googled "Bryan Sikes Green Beret," the subject of that put-down.
Ah. He's at it again. Wrote an open letter to Michael Moore, called him a "turd." Moore made some movie and said he thought snipers were "cowards." Snipers are cowards...Snipers are cowards? Really? I can see why Moore would think something about that. Snipers are sort of sneaky, right? Like they hide, out of the most dangerous danger and take shots at an unsuspecting enemy. They don't, like, "Forward, March!" into enemy lines. So, I see how you could get within a country mile of calling snipers cowards but no closer, snipers are not cowards.
Sikes is a sniper. Sniper does not equate with coward so I can understand Sikes being offended and insulted at Moore calling snipers cowards and going off on Moore. Sikes was a sniper who was a coward when he shot at Gwyneth Paltrow for her offense of equating the pain she felt at twitter hate directed at her as "war." This-is-war, that-is-war, everything is war, the war trope is so common, Paltrow did not personalize it toward Sikes or his class of snipers as Moore did, nor toward soldiers. Sikes personalized it, he directed his hate toward Gwyneth Paltrow personally--and then didn't when David Ortiz used the war metaphor just a few weeks later! That's a sniper who is a coward. Sikes was a sniper who was a coward toward Paltrow.
Ah. He's at it again. Wrote an open letter to Michael Moore, called him a "turd." Moore made some movie and said he thought snipers were "cowards." Snipers are cowards...Snipers are cowards? Really? I can see why Moore would think something about that. Snipers are sort of sneaky, right? Like they hide, out of the most dangerous danger and take shots at an unsuspecting enemy. They don't, like, "Forward, March!" into enemy lines. So, I see how you could get within a country mile of calling snipers cowards but no closer, snipers are not cowards.
Sikes is a sniper. Sniper does not equate with coward so I can understand Sikes being offended and insulted at Moore calling snipers cowards and going off on Moore. Sikes was a sniper who was a coward when he shot at Gwyneth Paltrow for her offense of equating the pain she felt at twitter hate directed at her as "war." This-is-war, that-is-war, everything is war, the war trope is so common, Paltrow did not personalize it toward Sikes or his class of snipers as Moore did, nor toward soldiers. Sikes personalized it, he directed his hate toward Gwyneth Paltrow personally--and then didn't when David Ortiz used the war metaphor just a few weeks later! That's a sniper who is a coward. Sikes was a sniper who was a coward toward Paltrow.
