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   From: dd@dandrake.com   
      
   On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:50:45 UTC, "Christopher Kreuzer"   
    wrote:   
      
   > Dan Drake wrote:   
   > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:45:44 UTC, Larry Swain    
   > > wrote:   
   > >> ...  Seeing orcs as Muslims seems to me   
   > >> to be as much a misreading as that (or as seeing the recent movie The   
   > >> 300 as an anti-Iranian Bush administration diatribe).   
   > >>   
   > > (Have you told the bloggers who LOVE that movie that they're seeing   
   > > it all wrong? :)   
   > Really? They don't know their history (Thermopylae and all that), or they   
   > are just projecting? Seriously, badly, projecting.   
      
   Yes, they don't. Worse: Victor Davis Hanson, the famous classicist and   
   op-ed writer, recently (in connection with the movie, of course) called   
   Thermopylae a heroic last defense of freedom. Ignoring the logic (*last?*   
   Hmm, tell it to the Athenians), one has to wonder if he has actually read   
   Herodotus. You find a very different version there, I needn't tell you.   
   But I guess we're rather OT here.   
      
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