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To: Lane3 who wrote (12315)	2/16/2006 4:53:52 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543661

Re your analogy, sorry but I don't have the background to appreciate it. I'm Lord of the Rings impaired. <g> Then it will have less impact, but I laid out the basic situation. You could switch "Gondor, Rohan, and Mordor" with "Countries X, Y, an Z", and it doesn't change the analogy too much. The one important point that I didn't lay out was that Sauron's/Mordor's forces (Sauron is the evil overlord, Mordor is the country) are starting to attack the near by nations with an eventual plan to put much, perhaps all, of the world under their boot. If Mordor's forces aren't stopped at Gondor (a near by and fairly powerful country but not as powerful as Mordor at the time of TLOR), they will just keep sweeping outwards. As I said before Mordor was an existential threat to the rest of the world, think of a country that has the power of the US, UK, Germany, Russia and China combined, absolutely ruled by an aggressive, psychopathic, megalomaniac, who attacks with a ruthlessness that make the Romans or Mongols seem like cuddly puppies. If you want I could lay out some of what was going on in the Lord of the Rings, but then if you really wanted that there are plenty of other sources you could have gotten it from, so I'm not going to assume that is what you are looking for.