This article is complete crap.
Iron Man doesn’t say a damn thing about America’s responsibility one way or another. Stark never goes back on his comments in the first half; indeed, his traitorous assistant points out that he’s ended up creating a weapon far more powerful than any that came before. The weapons were being deliberately placed into hands that they weren’t intended for – they were intended to protect America, they were being used against it and its friends. There isn’t a thing said about whether they should not have been made in the first place; the problem is where they ended up, and why, and who was responsible for that. And since fundamentally it’s a character story, it’s about Stark putting some serious thought into how to make sure that weapons stay with people who can be trusted with them, and how he pursues that goal. He didn’t want to shut down the weapons business because it’s inherently bad; he wanted it shut down because he wasn’t satisfied with the controls on where the output was going. Same as with any quality control system: if you suddenly discover a major problem and you’re not sure where in the production line it might be, you turn it all off and go through everything step by step. Otherwise you’re knowingly allowing the problem to continue.
None of this says anything about the US and whether and how it should defend itself.
Kyle Smith, you self-deluding idiot, shut up plzkthx.
