Here's a good Cracked article about a campy anti-war movie about a race from a distant, desert land, who out of nowhere strikes a civilian target in a way we didn't think was possible, leading to heavy-handed patriotic propaganda, and a headlong rush into a war with a poorly thought-out strategy that results in a quagmire. You don't have to agree with the message to get that it's clearly a satirical send-up of the War on Terror. If anything, it's too on-the-nose. What's that, you say? The movie was made in 1997, four years before 9/11? Hmmm. That is a problem.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19259_6-mind-blowing-ways-starship-troopers-predicted-future.html#ixzz1Ry0Kwi00
