The arguments presented in Lone Survivor are unfounded, uneducated, biased, and counter-constructive.  None of the arguments are based on fact and entirely based on personal vendetta and self-destructive reasoning.  While the story was memorable, emotional, and an epic tale of a man’s will to survive, his own personal analysis of his story is almost laughable.
One of the most heavily presented arguments in this book was the extreme hatred for the “liberal media”.  He has a belief that the media is heavily responsible for what happened in the story and that had there not exist a liberal media the rest of his team would have made it out alive.  He believes that while many of the existing media claims to praise soldiers it often hinders their ability to survive in the theater of warfare.  “This entire business of modern war crimes, as identified by the liberal wings of politics and the media, began in Iraq and has been running downhill ever since. Everyone's got to have his little hands in it, blathering on about the public's right to know.  Well, the view of most Navy SEALs, the public does not have that right to know, not if it means placing our lives in unnecessary peril because someone in Washington is driving himself mad worrying about the human rights of some cold-hearted terrorist fanatic who would kill us as soon as look at us, as well as any other American at whom he could point that wonky old AK of his.” Luttrell 22
He has a general belief that society itself is liberal which he attributes to the liberal media.  The argument is that society would condemn the military if they were to take the “necessary actions” required to destroy the threat of terrorism in the world.  He believes that everyone else in the world is responsible for his failure to keep his team alive.  If it sounds like I’m repeating myself it’s because this was the basis for his entire argument: Society and media are liberal and therefore inherently evil and lacks the balls to do what’s necessary to squash terrorism throughout the world.  “In the military, if we don't know something, we say we don't know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some highly paid charlatans in the media think it's absolutely fine to take a wild guess at the truth and then tell a couple of million people it's cast-iron fact, just in case they might be right...I hope they're proud of themselves, because they nearly broke my mom's heart.... ” Luttrell 191
The thing that I love most about his argument that media is liberal is that it is for the most part the exact opposite.  Major news outlets are overarchingly conservative; even news outlets that support liberal ideas generally do it because that’s the game they play, democrats win elections and have more influence and outlets like MSNBC get more money in fact they even fired multiple news anchors that wanted to get money out of politics which would thereby decreasing their own revenue because they’re actually being truthful.
However to be far smaller news companies are very liberal are very liberal mostly because they are not interested in money but are instead interested in the pursuit of truth.  His belief about this is that if the media didn’t condemn him for killing innocent people than he and his team would’ve completed their mission and all remain alive.  While this is probably true, in essence, anybody who gives a shred of crap about human rights would condemn that.  It is hammered into every organized military recruit from day one that honor and integrity is above everything meaning that even though they knew that they would most likely die if they let the innocent people go that it does not matter because you are a member of the US military that holds honor above all, that is what separates us from them, otherwise we aren’t any different from them.  It is true that the media would have condemn them had they killed the innocent civilians on that hill and they would have absolutely been put in Leavenworth, but that is no excuse for ignoring basic human rights. The basic rights of man far outweigh the personal needs of a futile being; this is the foundation of democracy and the true meaning of liberty.  “..Washington, where the human rights of terrorists are often given high priority. And I am certain liberal politicians would defend their position to the death. Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.” Luttrell 22
There is a very deliberate check and balance system put into place in America and the military is not exempt from this in any way shape or form just because they protect us.  The military must, just like every other part of government, answer to the people.  If we are to have a democracy specially selected people should not be exempt from punishment or scrutiny.
There is a very deliberate check and balance system put into place in America and the military is not exempt from this in any way shape or form just because they protect us.  The military must, just like every other part of government, answer to the people.  If we are to have a democracy specially selected people should not be exempt from punishment or scrutiny.  Even in the most impossibly difficult moments the military represents their government and their people, so if there is no other way than you accept an honorable death and be remembered as heroes rather than commit war crimes.  That is what it means to serve, if you cannot accept that, do not join the military.
This is not to say that do not understand where he's coming from; his best friends lost their lives defending honor and dignity of the United States military, and their sacrifice went greatly unrecognized until he wrote this book and even then it wasn't until the movie that it was brought to the general masses.  However, trying to deconstruct that principle of honor would mean that not only did those men die for nothing but that millions of Americans and other civil organized military personnel throughout human history lost their lives upholding that principle.
The belief that society is liberal is becoming increasingly true.  The fact is the much of the world is.  If a military cannot represent that, no matter how much they may disagree, then what are they to the people.  A military must be able to represent the ideals, morals, principles, and values of their nation.  They must be able to continually reform and change as their own countries society changes.  The also must be able to refrain from scrutinizing the way that the people of their nation subject them to justice.
“...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who put our lives on the line for our nation at the behest of our government should somehow be charged with murder for shooting our enemy. Its an insidious progression, the criticisms of the U.S. Armed Forces from politicians and from the liberal media, which knows nothing of combat, nothing of our training, and nothing of the mortal dangers we face out there on the front line.”
People in America understand the effects that loss incurs on an individual.  We understand how that can shape your view on the world and the society that envelopes it.  But when you start blaming the world and society for your losses that’s when you submit an obvious disconnect to how the world works.  Specifically in the case of Marcus Luttrell, a man who does not understand the underlying purpose of the military and does not understand society as a whole, a man who would rather blame anybody but himself for his losses, a man who did not understand his job as a military operator.
There is a reason is a reason why America’s Military is hated by many nations throughout the world and this is but one of them.  The military has to reform to account for the changes in our society and must recognize the human rights of all men.  For the sanctity of human life is not for one man to decide alone.