In an interview with the editorial board of the Bucks County Courier Times, embattled Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has equated the war in Iraq with J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. According to the paper, Santorum said that the United States has avoided terrorist attacks at home over the past five years because the "Eye of Mordor" has been focused on Iraq instead.
"As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else," Santorum said. "It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States."
That's at least a little more imaginative than the "Practice Makes Perfect" Doctrine offered by Christopher Hitchens:
How are we going to learn – how are we going to learn how to fight these people in rogue states and failed states if we don‘t – which are bad conditions, if we don‘t try?
Hmm, that's pretty bad, but you're up against Mordor here, Mr Hitchens – can you try for something a little stupider?
If we‘re going to pay—if we‘re going to pay for this huge military establishment, then I think...
Ah, the "Use It or Lose It" Doctrine. Close enough.
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