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Lord of the Dingbats
Hey, remember Rich Lowry? The guy who said that librarians are a bunch of traitors and joked that they should all be killed? Gawsh, he’s a laff riot!
Wellsir, he’s penned another winner. Apparently, The Lord of the Rings, both in its Good vs. Evil morality and in its plot (all Evil comes from the East), is a parable for George W. Bush’s war on terror! Wow, who’da thunk?
So, if you’ll indulge me while I develop this silly analogy further, I guess that means DubYa is Aragorn, right? Except…ummm… I don’t think Aragorn stole his crown from its rightful owner. And I’m pretty sure he didn’t use the Battle of Minas Tirith as a convenient excuse to plunder Gondor’s treasury and pour toxic sludge in the River Anduin. And I gotta say that, in the mentor/sage/guru role, Karl Rove makes a pretty piss-poor Gandalf.
Still, I have no doubt that DubYa sees himself as King.
But wait. Iraq is Mordor and Saddam is the spitting image of Sauron, right? Shit, that doesn’t work either. Saddam’s ability to harm the valiant men of the West seems to have been badly overblown, which makes him more of a paper tiger like Saruman of Isengard. Knocking him out was certainly a good thing, but it really doesn’t make us any safer from the Main Enemy. Nope, the real Sauron is hiding out somewhere in the mountains of Afghanistan and/or Pakistan.
Nice try though, Rich.
