I know times are hard for Rick Santorum - name appropriated for nasty sexual debris, probably on his way to losing his Senate seat - but this makes me thing he's gone 'round the bend (if he wasn't there already):
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.'
Maybe, in his stress, he's confused "Middle East" with "Middle Earth"? Regardless, I wouldn't trust Rick to return The Lord of the Rings to the video store, much less analyze the war in the Middle East with any competency/honesty.
UPDATE: Ah, all is clear now, thanks to an explanation from Steven Colbert.
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