Is "Postman" an analogy for what's happening in Iraq?

[jobycom]

Dispense with the Costner-bashing for a moment.

Review of movie: It's a post-American collapse film. Each town is a walled entity by itself. There is a crazed militia leader who kidnaps people and makes them join his army, and he terrorizes the region, forcing towns to pay tribute.

Costner is a vagabond who discovers a postman's uniform and mail bag, and in order to get food from one town, pretends the US has reformed under President Richard Starky (Ringo Star's real name). This gives hope to a kid who recruits more postmen, and soon there is a rebel force delivering letters from town to town, and they begin attacking the militia.

So the militia captures the kid and another postman, and is about to execute them both. The kid turns to the other postman and asks "Who are you?"

The militia leader (Will Patton) stops, and gives a quick speech that they are no longer fighting a group, they are now fighting a ghost. The Postman movement has grown beyond the original group.

The al-Quieda members in the Berk tape supposedly spoke Russian, which means they are probably different from the Bin Laden al-Quieda group, made up at the beginning of this nonsense of mostly Arabs and Pashtu, and a few Egyptians.

Are we fighting a ghost? Have we spread al-Quieda beyond its natural borders? Is this what happened to the Soviets in Afghanistan, where many nations, many people flocked to the country to oppose the Evil Empire?

And does Will Patton's character remind anyone else of a slightly smarter Bush?

[SlavesandBulldozers]

1. al queida is certainly a ghost

and they are essentially the same entity that fought the soviets in afghanistan, with our training of course - and up-to-date tech.

[indigobusiness]

2. It is a prophetic warning for America

but read the book...much, much better.

http://sludgereport.blogspot.com/

[displacedtexan]

3. I loved that film!

The book is better, though. Much more insight into the individual characters.

We used to trot out Saddam when we needed to wag the dog... then Bin Laden. They were far away and non-life threatening, but they were good for increasing military budgets and contracts.

Like the Cold War, the BFEE has to have a "ghost" enemy in order to scare people into voting for them. They can't win otherwise: look back to 1992. No more Cold War, and no one needed the repukes anymore.

What's up w/ spell checker? Won't work for me.

[jobycom]

4. But the ghost enemy

Isn't our creation, now. We are really spreading the al-Quieda ideal throughout the world.