Jake Tapper's 'Intense' Interview with Former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell

Here's the background to the movie. It's a must-see, and I mean it: "Former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell Didn't Want to Write 'Lone Survivor'."

I plan to write more on this, but I already knew of the controversy as I was heading out to the movies last night. So here it is now, "'They Died for Nothing?' #LoneSurvivor Marcus Luttrell Takes Jake Tapper to SEAL School."

Tapper's Twitter exchange defense is at the link.

Watch it:

Jake Tapper: One of the emotions I felt while watching was, first of all, the hopelessness of the situation, how horrific it was. And I was torn about the message of the film in the same way that I think I am about the war in Afghanistan itself. I don’t want any more senseless American death.

Marcus Luttrell: I don’t know what part of the film you were watching, but hopelessness never really came into it. Where did you see that? We never felt like we were hopelessly lost or anything like that. We never gave up. We never felt like we were losing until we were actually dead.

Tapper: It seemed senseless. I don’t mean to disrespect in any way, but it seemed senseless — all of these wonderful people who were killed for an op that went wrong.

Luttrell: We spend our whole lives training to defending this country, and then we were sent over there by this country. So you’re telling me because we were over there doing what we were told by our country, that it was senseless? And my guys, what? They died for nothing?

Tapper: No.

Luttrell: That’s what you said. So, let me just say, it went bad for us over there, but that was our job. That’s what we did. We didn’t complain about it.

Intense.