The Hollywood Left is from Venus?
<p>David Koepp, the screenwriter behind the current blockbuster movie<br />
<cite>War of the Worlds</cite> has <a href='http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/index.php?p=527'>said</a>:<br />
&#8220;the Martians in our movie represent American military forces invading<br />
the Iraqis.&#8221;</p>
<p>As InstaPundit observed, you just can&#8217;t make this stuff up.  It&#8217;s<br />
hard to lampoon the Hollywood left any more, because they keep<br />
uttering inanities that venture beyond far, far beyond parody &mdash;<br />
yea and verily, into the Land of the Barking Moonbats.  Nevertheless,<br />
here at <cite>Armed and Dangerous</cite> we&#8217;re not afraid to<br />
try&#8230;</p>
<p>OK, Mr, Koepp, let&#8217;s see if I have this straight.  The Americans in<br />
the movie aren&#8217;t Americans. they&#8217;re Iraqis.  The Martians aren&#8217;t<br />
Martians, they&#8217;re Americans.  Fine, I follow you so far.  Is there a<br />
scene where the Martians collect toys from the Red Planet to give to<br />
American children?  Do they build schools and powerplants for the<br />
Earthlings who are blowing them up with IEDs?  Is there a scene where<br />
the Martians depose the brutal American dicator George Bush &mdash;<br />
you know, the one who fought a pointless war with Mexico and<br />
nerve-gassed the population of the upper Midwest? Do we get to see his<br />
twin daughters amusing themselves by feeding dissidents feet-first<br />
into industrial shredders?</p>
<p>Koepp would have it that <cite>War of the Worlds</cite> is a fable<br />
about the perils of military adventurism.  As an anarchist who<br />
believes that war is the health of the State and an overly healthy<br />
State is a damnably bad thing, I daresay I&#8217;m more dead set against<br />
&#8220;military adventurism&#8221; than he is; I&#8217;ll bet he thought it wasn&#8217;t so<br />
bad when, say, Soviet tanks were rolling into Prague in 1968, if he<br />
was alive then.</p>
<p>But &#8220;adventurism&#8221; is a peculiar word to use in this context.  Not<br />
the movie, but what he claims it refers to.  Um.  Just checking,<br />
now&#8230;four years before the movie began, did the two tallest buildings<br />
on Mars get flying saucers crashed into them by terrorists operating<br />
from Guatemala?  Did every intelligence service on Mars believe, and<br />
tell their leaders, that the terrorists had been getting training and<br />
logistical support from the CIA?  Did the Martian press repeatedly<br />
publish investigative stories about the terrorist/American connection<br />
and urging Mars to do something about it &mdash; stories that were<br />
believed clean across the political spectrum before a campaign for<br />
Supreme Xyglfrntz made it convenient for one faction of Martians to<br />
forget that?</p>
<p>Probably not.  But that&#8217;s the movie <em>I</em> want to see.  You know,<br />
the one where John Kerry does a cameo as a failed candidate for Supreme<br />
Xyglfrntz who voted for the invasion before he voted against it.</p></p>
