{"id":422,"date":"2006-08-19T10:40:11","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T10:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=422"},"modified":"2006-08-19T10:40:11","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T10:40:11","slug":"this-ten-times-upside-down-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"This ten times upside down world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I had the pleasure of watching Rambo III, which I had not seen for many years.<br \/>\nEvery scene was a jaw dropping WTF &#8216;can you believe it?&#8217; moment.<\/p>\n<p>That film &#8230; <a title=\"Mininova\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mininova.org\/search\/?search=rambo\">you MUST see it if you have not yet done so<\/a> &#8230; is an upside down inside out mirror of what is happening today, with the Americans replacing the Soviets word for word and action for action. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Soviet commanders call Rambo &#8216;a terrorist&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>The Soviets murder innocent people playing a polo game en masse, and mow down women and children from helicopters<\/li>\n<li>The Soviets run a hellish torture dungeon \/ prison where they use electricity and all manner of barbarisms<\/li>\n<li>Insert your own comparison here<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honestly, If anyone\u00a0 in 1988 (the date this film was released) had said that the USA would be doing EXACTLY what the Soviets were doing in teh middle east, only MUCH WORSE, they would have been laughed at, but now&#8230;.<span style=\"font-style: italic\">its not a joke; its actually happened<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>This film is a montage of all the bad behaviour that is going on, but with the characters swapped around. The only constant is the suffering and injustice poured upon the resident populations.<\/p>\n<p>This film is old. Many of the people who will be watching it now were probably born around the time that it was made. I wonder what on earth they make of it? They do not have the cold war mindset backdrop to put it into perspective like we had; it must seem like a very strange affair indeed, with Russians blowing women and children to bits and the Americans saying &#8216;<a onmousedown=\"return rwt(this,'','','res','2','&#038;sig2=MhukEbnmj71qMWnpsFUtXQ')\" class=\"l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pantheon.org\/articles\/i\/in-sha-allah.html\"><strong>In-Sha<\/strong>&#8216;-<strong>Allah<\/strong><\/a>&#8216; with the same frequency as Lord Bush refers to tuurrrrrsts.<\/p>\n<p>This world&#8230;its all upside out and inside down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I had the pleasure of watching Rambo III, which I had not seen for many years. Every scene was a jaw dropping WTF &#8216;can you believe it?&#8217; moment. That film &#8230; you MUST see it if you have not yet done so &#8230; is an upside down inside out mirror of what is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}