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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On 13 Apr 2007 20:16:18 GMT, "Dan Drake"  wrote:   
      
   >On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:21:25 UTC, Larry Swain    
   >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? :)   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >> Or were you talking about The 300?  There are bloggers who love the   
   >> movie who think that The 300 is a anti-Iranian Bush diatribe?  Point me   
   >> to some and I'd be glad to tell them they're seeing it all wrong.   
   >   
   >Yes, that was it. I'll point to Victor Davis Hanson, the classicist and   
   >op-ed writer, who was widely cited in that opinion a couple of weeks ago.   
   >Except of course that anti-Iranian Bush diatribe is not the way they put   
   >it, as they approve of it.   
      
   Of course one could equally well (and with more justice) see the 300 as   
   "insurgents" resisting foreign invaders, but I don't think you could blame   
   that on Lewis or Tolkien either.   
      
      
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