So the war on terror will continue to stymie Bond. And any real-world resonance to his hamfisted approach to Third World crises is not accidental, according to Campbell. “It could be an allegory for George W. Bush going into Iraq. Is George Bush a ‘blunt instrument’ [as M says of Bond]? Absolutely. Does he do it the wrong way? Absolutely. It’s fucked up. It’s sort of what Bond does at the beginning of the movie. By the end of the movie, he’s learned an awful lot. I have to say, by the end of two terms of George Bush’s presidency, he has learned nothing.”
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