Diane Abbott

[KrisW]

Pure Strangelove.

The irony is that that man, Wesley Clark, served as an infantry officer in Vietnam. Iran would be a second Vietnam, except this time the US would be facing a far better equipped enemy in a country with far more people, where it would have no in-country allies. Oh, and Iran has some kind of nuclear weapons it could use.

 

[Finnegan]

Pure Strangelove.

Great film, but I found the ending a little downbeat.

Its almost as though the US learns from past catastrophes and has robust exit strategies in place when it decides to invade another country.

 

[Enfield boy]

“Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off with Iran.” Seems it was a little bit more than simply a fantasy believed by anti-war protestors. You can argue that this was just the crazed dream of some Dr. Strangelove in the Pentagon, but it was more likely having their asses kicked in Afghanistan and Iraq that halted this particular strategy. Although of course, the US would go on to intervene in Syria, Libya and Somalia in any case.

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Christ, are you sure this isn't a Bob Newhart sketch?

 

[Finnegan]

Christ, are you sure this isn't a Bob Newhart sketch?

Well, it’s a thin line.

 

[KrisW]

Great film, but I found the ending a little downbeat.

Well, it was originally filmed to end with a food fight.. this explains why you can see cakes in the last War Room scenes. Kubrick rejected it in editing, partly because he felt a shot of the US President being splattered with a cream cake was a little too close to the bone for a film released in the immediate aftermath of JFK's assassination.

(For the same reason, if you look closely you can see Slim Picken's lips mouth the original "Dallas" rather than the dubbed-in "Houston" in the line about having a lot of fun with a pistol, gum and condoms)