To remember what the world felt like to a lot of people in the fall of 2004, look no further than the opening scene of Team America: World Police, the South Park-driven marionette action spoof/international affairs crash course/musical that was released during one of the most divisive election seasons ever. Islamic terrorists are just about to detonate a weapon of mass destruction in Paris before an elite squad of swaggering American puppet commandos confront them. The Americans foil the terrorists’ designs, but not without also laying to fiery waste the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, and the Louvre. After …read more
Source: ” rel=nofollow>The Atlantic
