In an interview with the editorial board of the Bucks County Courier Times, embattled Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has equated the war in Iraq with J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings.”
According to the paper, Santorum said that the United States has avoided terrorist attacks at home over the past five years because the “Eye of Mordor” has been focused on Iraq instead.
“As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else,” Santorum said. “It’s being drawn to Iraq and it’s not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don’t want the Eye to come back here to the United States.”
Oh whatever…
I can’t think of a more stupid analogy…
Ok, George W. Bush does somehow look like a hobbit, but other than that this is complete nonsense…
[Source: Salon]
The Republicans, and especially their leadership, are on a whole very poorly educated, with no exposure to other religions, cultures or even to Western humanism and its origins. So, when reaching for analogies, they tend to pull from popular culture. (Despite its succinct statement of the source of their power, they probably wouldn’t recognize the orgin of the phrase “Ignorance is Strength.”)
As to that nonsense about why there’ve been no more terrorist attacks in the U.S., there’ve been no more terrorist attacks in the U.S. because there’ve been no more terrorist attacks in the U.S. (Might want to look up Occam’s Razor, Senator Santorum: entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.)
Though we’ve done a magnificent job in turning Iraq into a partisan training ground, virtually ensuring that there will eventually be more terrorist strikes on U.S. soil. And given the proliferation of nuclear weapons and materials, it won’t be pretty.