January 06, 2004
Compassion for Mordor
This is written tongue-in-cheek, but gets Jimmy Carter perfectly. He never met a dictator he didn't like, so....
... "The stakes are enormous," the distinguished former president said with great emotion. "If enough people start thinking in terms of good and evil, all our years of cultivating moral and cultural relativism, anti-military thinking, pacifism and internationalism will be jeopardized. And college students, our greatest hope, may no longer accept their professors' view of America as an imperialist war monger."(thanks to Betsy Newmark) Posted by John Weidner at January 6, 2004 09:20 AM | TrackBackAt the conclusion of the interview, Mr. Carter was asked if his campaign against "Lord of the Rings" had a name. The peace activist thought for a moment, and replied, "Compassion for Mordor."
Comments
I was surfing Iraqi websites just before the late unpleasantness and discovered the english spelling for Iraq used by Hussein's country on several national websites was...what else..."Uruk"...same as Tolkien's name for Orcs in Orc language...Tolkien was a learned man and a professional linguist, and might well have known this....Iraqi equals Uruk-hai?
Stranger than fiction.
Posted by: Doug Huggins at January 6, 2004 08:22 PM
