01-23-2010, 07:51 PM
Dude, I would have warned people for possible spoilers. Anyway, your points are well taken, but that is what makes him a great character, the fact that you aren't entirely sure whether to admire him or not, but then again it takes a special type of person to do what he does, so I'd have to believe that most people would be indifferent toward his personal failings. I think that was the main theme of the movie, showing the different types of soldiers who fight for this country and how (and why) they able to cope with varying degrees of combat shock, or in many cases they can't cope with civilian life at all and find the military more of a family than their own.