thread: 2007-03-19 : Tonight we dine
On 2007-03-19, Chris Goodwin wrote:
Funny. Once I realized about a third of the way through that, barring 3000+ intervening years, the Persians were, in fact, who the Iranians are now, it clicked for me the other way. It got to the point where I just kept rolling my eyes every time Leonidas opened his mouth.
The beleaguered armies of freedom, led by King Leonidas W. Bush, were making their final stand against pretty much the whole Middle East. All of the "we fight for freedom" rhetoric was meant to show that the Spartans were, in fact, Our Side, and the piercings and perversions were meant to depict Them. The "liberal" in "Congress" who was against Supporting Our Troops (By Sending More Of Them To Die) was even depicted as a traitor, having taken Persian money (Why Do You Hate Sparta?).
(And I've known a few Marines, served with a few while I was in the Air Force, and the Spartans were definitely supposed to represent them.)
