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...True Meaning of Iron Man Richard Corliss totally missed the boat in his analysis of the movie Iron Man [May 19]. The implicit message of the film, with its stereotypical portrayals of Middle Eastern men and trivialization of the role of our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, is not, as Corliss states, that "we've dwelled too long in the crypts of antiscientific dystopia." It is rather that the possession of state-of-the-art high-tech weaponry is the key to the triumph of good over evil, that might makes right and that combat is just a high-tech...
...True Meaning of Iron Man Richard Corliss totally missed the boat in his analysis of the movie Iron Man [May 19]. The implicit message of the film, with its stereotypical portrayals of Middle Eastern men and trivialization of the role of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, is not, as Corliss states, that "we've dwelled too long in the crypts of antiscientific dystopia." It is rather that the possession of state-of-the-art high-tech weaponry is the key to the triumph of good over evil, that might makes right and that combat is just a high-tech...
...True Meaning of Iron...
Richard Corliss totally missed the boat in his analysis of the movie Iron Man [May 19]. The implicit message of the film, with its stereotypical portrayals of Middle Eastern men and trivialization of the role of our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, is not, as Corliss states, that "we've dwelled too long in the crypts of antiscientific dystopia." It is rather that the possession of state-of-the-art high-tech weaponry is the key to the triumph of good over evil, that might makes right, and that combat is just a high-tech video game. The real villains...
...policy. But after half a century it's fairly clear by now that while our allies may strongly disapprove of Cuba's politics and human rights record, they view their economic and diplomatic engagement with Cuba as no more out of line than our economic and diplomatic engagement with iron-fisted regimes like China and Saudi Arabia. In fact, if McCain were as serious as he declared about improving U.S. relations with Latin America, he would realize that the region's lingering grievances about our high-handed approach to the hemisphere are often tied to our perceived Cuba hypocrisy...