Why exactly does it have to be "about" something in particular? This was a confusing series of events with confusing outcomes. There are several themes we can delineate, but there's a lot of gray area left over. I don't have a problem with that, it's pretty much what I expected.

Let me add that no connection has been made between his skills and his heritage, for all we know he picked up all of these skills abroad.

It's not really a flaw, not how I see it. It's not like he had a choice, you know. Remember his Vietnam story? He had to become that image everyone saw in him, if he was going to survive.