While the movie
A Bug’s Life
was really a remake of 
The Magnificent SevenMagnificent Seven, it occurred to me yesterday that it represents America’s hopes for Iraq.
The Grasshoppers are the Baathists or Islamists who are preying upon the regular Iraqi people who represent the Ants.
The Circus bugs would be the US. While we can distract and scare the Grasshoppers away, it will ultimately be the Ants themselves who will have to band together against those who would take away their freedom.
Granted, its not the deepest metaphor in the world (The Ants have a queen, not a democracy), I still found it amusing.
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