A new movie brings out the recently somewhat dormant West-as-warmonger aspect of the American Left

David French at NRO on the hurl-inducingly disgusting reviews that Lone Survivor is getting in various FHer quarters.

Any attempt to paste some kind of condensation of French's piece would not do it justice, but here are a few examples.

He takes on the LA Weekly summation of what it says the film is trying to get across: "Brown people bad, American people good":

Really? You say that after the film shows how Americans actually gave their lives rather than kill an innocent “brown” person? Make no mistake, this is an accusation of the most vile racism, and it slanders these SEALs. Indeed, it slanders more than the SEALs involved in that firefight. Friends of mine died in Iraq — including, and this will be a news flash to L.A. Weekly (which apparently views our forces as all-white), “brown” friends — because of their concern for and respect for the lives of local citizens. We erred on the side of saving local lives, to the point where people very dear to me paid the ultimate price.

Addressing Salon's assertion that the film says American deaths are qualitatively different from Taliban deaths, he says this:

This statement is simply disgusting. I wonder if the writer would say it to the face of the “comely” widows or the grieving “moppets?” I will tell you this: The suffering and death of honorable men is qualitatively different from the suffering and death of men who murder, rape, and terrorize as a matter of course and as a matter of jihadist religious principle — especially when the honorable men die in an effort to protect others from terror. There is no moral equivalence in this fight, and there is no moral equivalence in their deaths.  

Focusing on the portion of the review in The Atlantic that says the film goes to some length to maximize the villainy of a beheading in a village, French says this:

Let’s talk reality: When the film shows jihadists storming into a village and lopping off a man’s head, it understates their atrocities. I don’t know what has to be done to penetrate the thick skulls of the willfully ignorant, but the Taliban and their al-Qaeda allies are evil to a degree Americans (obviously) have trouble comprehending. I’ve relayed this litany before, but it bears repeating. Here’s a (partial) list of al-Qaeda actions in my unit’s area of operations between 2007–2008: Decapitating women and children, recording the murders up-close, and shrieking “Allah Akhbar” as they sawed off each innocent head; shooting an infant in the face with an AK-47 as a warning against collaboration with Americans; raping women to “dishonor” them, then strapping bombs on their bodies as the only way they could redeem themselves; and putting bombs in unwitting children’s backpacks then remotely detonating them at family events. Let’s also not forget the years-long suicide-bombing campaigns where civilians weren’t collateral damage – they were the target.

Oh, and if the “viewer’s sympathies” weren’t already sorted out before they saw this movie (Taliban or SEALs? Is that really a difficult choice?), then the viewer had lost their moral compass.

So it's back - the most foul form of this hatred for its own civilizational foundations among the array of forms of the Left's self-loathing.  I guess we can take heart from the box-office numbers, which would indicate that the Freedom-Haters have not convinced a majority of us of their dark, grim worldview.