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Haha Airman, I was just kidding about the terrorist thing... See, a year or so ago America was worried about terrorists and labeling all these innocent people as such. Paranoia you see. But now we\'re so wrapped up in American Idol that we don\'t notice terrorists!

I don\'t think any countries are the \"best\" personally..but I do have a few favorites, and yes america is one of them.

I think it\'s alright to call all Muslims terrorists, but isn\'t that just doing exactly as the real terrorists are doing? Only their killing people for it. I also thing that locking people up for saying that supplying Isreal with weapons to use against Palistinians is just as bad.

Seems to me, though, that the problem with America is Hollywood. They make films as their specialty. They\'re so wrapped up in fantasy that they can\'t tell war from a war film until they\'re bringing back the coffins.

That (incidently) is why LoTR is a good film/book/whatever. The book was written by someone who served in, and saw some horrific things in, the First World War. The so called \"War to end all Wars\". So twenty years on, they have another. But Tolkien put references to some of his experiances in the book. The faces in the Dead Marshes is the water in the trench with bodies completely submerged. Sam\'s account of War. This is a particularly personal one to Tolkien which is very clear in reading it. Please note that this is not directly fom the book, it\'s from memory, so the order and the wording are not completely accurate.



This is clearly how Tolkien thought about his \"enemy\". And how the \"enemy\" felt about them. So much so, in fact, that on Christmas 1914, both sides got out of the trenched and staged an impromptu truce. They swapped Christmas presents and they even played football. But, alas, it lasted but a day...then they got back to killing eachother....

The part I quoted can be found on the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam are found by Faramir. It is not in the Theatrical film, but it is said by Faramir in the extended version.

I think that is why it is good that the book was written by someone British, and the films directed by a New Zealander. Because if it was written and directed by an American, they would have half the films with just Aragorn and Arwen!:eek:

Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they\'ve always done before.
~Guns \'n\' Roses

Anyway, I think I\'ve rambled on a little too much. If you don\'t think so...BOO!!!