there is new controversy after a editorial calls the movie lone survivor , military propraganda. the film chronicles the story of the only navy seal to come out of that operation alive after an intense taliban ambush in afghanistan. so this journalist writing quote, this is from the atlantic. all war films have heroes for understandable reasons to give audiences someone to root for and because soldiers often really are heroic. when a film like lone survivor transforms navy seals into infallible super men, tragically bested, it suggests that these men are role models only in death and it was war that made them noble and heroic. war isn t great. war makes you great. what is such a sentiment is not pro-war. so the mother of one of the navy seals killed during that operation, matthew axelson, in 2005, disagrees with this idea. these are men and women who