Paradise Lost resonates with Bush, Cheney…
The proposition: that Bush and his minions are well…minions of another kind as well. So there I was in class…and reading book two of Milton’s epic. Just before Satan actually decides to pursue Adam and Eve in paradise, he plants a suggestion with Beelzebub, who, in conference suggests invading, albeit deceitfully, paradise. The fallen angels sit silent for a while, and then Satan, preeminent among them, volunteers for this search.
Anyways, not that these issues came up in my class…but think about it: Paradise was somewhere in the middle east, near the Tigris and the Euphrates, both of which are in modern day Iraq. So we don’t have to take Paradise literally, but what with all the rhetoric surrounding Israel, with Iran, Iraq, Opec, and all those other places, I think we can quite confidently say that Bush and Cheney were in hot pursuit of another paradise…one with lots of oil.
Mwah hahaha!
PS. not that this hasn’t been said before, but most likely not in the terms I said it…
good analogy!