Oh, I don't know. I saw it as "Neocons go in without knowing or caring anything about the locals, blow stuff up, and don't even notice the havoc they've caused." And if the song "America, F*ck Yeah!" wasn't a send-up of unthinking jingoism, I don't know what it was (maybe it was just an excuse to use four-letter words).
The two sides weren't satirized in the same way; a lot of the neocon- and hawk-skewering lay in what wasn't said (e.g., in the Paris scene, they keep referring to "the WMD". Even in a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, they would've specified whether it's a nuke, a bottle of sarin, a vial of anthrax, or what. Here, they just didn't care, and that's funny). But I didn't see it as being as skewed as you seem to think.
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Date: 2005-06-05 01:05 am (UTC)The two sides weren't satirized in the same way; a lot of the neocon- and hawk-skewering lay in what wasn't said (e.g., in the Paris scene, they keep referring to "the WMD". Even in a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, they would've specified whether it's a nuke, a bottle of sarin, a vial of anthrax, or what. Here, they just didn't care, and that's funny). But I didn't see it as being as skewed as you seem to think.