| | I found this joke to be quite insensitive. If you look at the map, Iran shows up in the center of a mass of countries infested with extremist throat-slitting savages (and the word "extremism" is even engraved in the cover to the gutter). So what is the viewer to think? Guilt by association. And what is the reality? All that Iran has ever done (recently) are merely 3 quasi-genocidal things:
1) export and support terrorism
2) nuclear proliferation in spite of UN opposition
3) and directly threaten deadly force against merely one single nation: Israel
Now sure, if you look at #2 in light of #1 and #3, it does appear that Iran is the single highest threat to civilization known today (or throughout all of human history, for that matter). But that shouldn't be held against them. When they've killed (recently), they've only killed indirectly (except when it's one of their citizens). Depicting them as exporting threats (shown as "terrorist bugs") -- while technically correct -- is just going too far. I mean, at least it's not what Jesus would have done (if that matters).
Ed
(Edited by Ed Thompson on 7/25, 7:53pm)
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