Everything Else

Watch from around 4 minutes in.

Zaysen: After all, in the end what everyone really wants is peace.
Colonel Trautman: The Kremlin’s got a hell of a sense of humor.
Zaysen: Please explain.
Colonel Trautman: You talk peace and disarmament. And here you are wiping out a race of people!
Zaysen: We are wiping out no one. I think you are too intelligent to believe such propaganda. Now again. Where are the missiles?
Colonel Trautman: I don’t know anything about the missiles!
Zaysen: Of course you do. But you do not seem to realize I’m providing a way out for us both.
Colonel Trautman: You expect sympathy? You started this damn war, now you have to deal with it!
Zaysen: And we will. It is only a matter of time before we achieve a complete victory.
Colonel Trautman: You know there won’t be a victory. Everyday your war machines lose ground to a bunch of poorly armed, poorly equipped freedom fighters. The fact is that you underestimated your competition. If you’ve studied your history, you’d know that these people have never given up to anyone. They’d rather DIE than be slaves to an invading army. You can’t defeat a people like that. We tried, we already HAD our Vietnam. Now you’re going to have yours.

(Oh dear, and there’s more just a little later)

This is Afghanistan… Alexander the Great try to conquer this country… then Genghis Khan, then the British. Now Russia. Afghan people fight hard. They never be defeated. Ancient enemy make prayers about these people. You wish to hear? Very good. May God deliver us from the venom of the cobra, teeth of the tiger and the vengeance of the Afghan.”

Reminds me of George W Bush’s one truly (if accidentally) great and revelatory quote: “When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us vs them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they’re there.”

After last night’s GREAT second episode of Lost, an episode that will have you wondering what was up with last week’s borefest even more (my thoughts on episode 2 next week) somebody on a message board points the above resemblance out. A hearty LOL for all .

For the other impatient people, there’s a stream of last night’s episode, “Confirmed Dead” here. (This isn’t a particularly dodgy site, but it may try and get you to sign up for some adware, albeit fairly politely by internet standards, as you click on it. Just read how to abstain from signing up for it quite carefully as it tries to confuse you)