by Bill Levinson

We rarely get a chance to go to the movie theater, but we may make an exception for “300.” We don’t know if the acting will be better than it was in “The 300 Spartans” (1962, starring Richard Egan as King Leonidas), but we have heard that there is a lot of violence. The official trailer (warning, graphic violence) shows an Iranofascist* being thrown into a deep pit. Our understanding is that the Persian ambassadors demanded that Sparta give them earth and water, the contemporary symbols of submission and dhimmitude. King Leonidas replied by throwing them into a well and telling them they could find their earth and water there.

* Islam had yet to be invented, but the Persian Empire’s geopolitics were similar to Islamofascism’s

The 300 Spartans were, of course, finally killed to the last man by the million-man Iranian army, but Xerxes lost 20,000 men in the process. Had the Spartans not been BETRAYED by a filthy traitor named Ephialtes (played by Andrew Tiernan, but perhaps should have been portrayed by Michael Moore, John Murtha, Jane Fonda, John Kerry, or Cindy Sheehan–not much “acting” would be required by the latter) who showed the Persians a goat path that led behind the Greek position, it is quite possible that the Persians would have lost the battle. This is because, then as it is today, one Euro-American is worth a hundred superstitious barbarians. Euro-American culture comes directly from that of the Greeks and Romans, so the Three Hundred are indeed our people.

A Greek, Ephialtes, sold out his own people by showing the Persians a goat path that led behind the Spartan position. In “300,” we have heard, a Greek politician who opposed the war was discovered with a bag full of gold coins with Xerxes’ face on them. There is a lesson here; we have to see where George Soros’ and Saudi Arabia’s money is going, and who is getting it.

Two important “laconic” (characteristic of the Spartans) statements should be present in the movie.
(1) “Molon labe!” (”Come and take them!”)– King Leonidas’ answer to the Persians’ demand that the Spartans lay down their arms.

(2) “Good. Then we will fight in the shade.”– Spartans’ answer to the Persians’ boast that their archers were so numerous that their arrows blotted out the sun.

Although King Leonidas and his valiant soldiers sacrificed their lives to save their country from enslavement, the Persians did far less well when they outnumbered the Greeks only five or ten to one. Marathon was, for example, a nearly one-sided massacre, with armored Greek hoplites slaughtering cowardly Iranians like sheep. Somewhat later, Alexander the Great led an army across the Bosporus and showed what Europeans could really do when they had one man for every five or ten Iranofascists, as opposed to one for every hundred as they did at Thermopylae.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, watch the movie and pay attention. This is the culture you are threatening with nuclear war. You do not outnumber us a hundred to one the way Xerxes, who may or may not have been your distant ancestor, outnumbered the Three Hundred. The blood on those Greek spears, or its modern equivalent on our army’s modern weapons, is your future if we think you can really harm us. Perhaps you had better jump down that well with your Twelfth Imam, and find your earth and water there.





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Related: Iran, Media/Blogsphere

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