I'm assuming this isn't satire:

But if you’re watching with empathy, you’ll mourn the children about to die under Rico’s command. You’ll notice the flat intonations and empty stare of Neil Patrick Harris’ Jenkins, signifying the loss of his humanity. You’ll feel for the fearful bug, despite its ugly features. Watching with empathy, with a mind toward the evils of suffering, is the only thing that offsets the potential fascist tendencies of cinematic spectacle.

As satire, of course, the film of Starship Troopers is a delicious failure. It has no "truth" that it can "speak to power", and its attitude to its source material is flippant and dismissive. 

As it happens, Heinlein wasn't a fascist, and he didn't write fascist books. But even if he had, some sort of analysis and take down of (for example) nationalism and/or syndicalism and/or Hegelian idealism might have been in order, rather that merely a smugly derisory depiction of "militarism". 

And so the assumption of the film's director that anyone who isn't a libertarian socialist must be irrelevant and contemptible speaks very poorly for him as a human being.

And it's genuinely amusing that despite his best (or worst) intentions he turned out a genuinely entertaining and enjoyable movie.