No Star Wars for Oil

Why can't people stop reading anti-Bush polemics into this film? These lines she cites can be interpreted many different ways. Palpatine as Karl Rove?

Well, bear in mind the byline is from Brussels. Those idiots still think Dallas is a true reflection of Texas.

Nixon wrote it in his book No More Vietnams (1985). An excellent book. Nixon was actually a very good historian, and since he was around for literally the entire post-war period, he’s in an incomparable position to tell the story.

Here’s the quote from chapter 1:

The assertion that our very bigness is badness has infested our culture to a surprising degree. The creator of the phenomenally successful Star Wars series recently explained that the climactic scene in one of his moves - in which the evil “Empire’s” giant war machines are destroyed by fuzzy little good guys with wooden bows and arrows - was inspired by the Vietnam experience. No matter that in Vietnam the Communist “good guys” packed Soviet automatic rifles and, in 1975, rode state-of-the-art Russian tanks across the South Vietnamese border. The propaganda of disproportionate forces in Vietnam, the myth of small/good versus big/bad, did enough damage to help lose the war for the United States and the people of South Vietnam. Today it is one symptom of the Vietnam syndrome to the extent that it makes Americans ashamed of their power, guilty about being strong, and forgetful about the need to be willing to use their power to protect their freedom and the freedom of others.

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