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May 2, 2008 - 1:00 am - by Kyle Smith
Andrew
2008-05-04 09:30:29

I agree with Adam. I don’t think this movie goes the Lord of War route and argue that America is the root of all evil. In Iron Man its made very clear that Stark Industries is selling to both sides and Stark only wants to shut down his weapons division because he believes its getting US forces killed. I don’t think it says weapons manufacturing is inherently bad, it’s only bad when it gets our guys killed. Lord of War is different, in that it suggests Lockheed, Smith and Wesson, COlt etc. are amoral and that American enterprise profits from the small wars across the undeveloped war.