[0siris]

I must've seen a different movie. This was a metaphor against US Involvement in the Middle East, "Stay out of the Desert", the William H. Macy character was the neo-Con villain, and the film ends w/ the noble hero unable and unwilling to return to the U.S., symbolically renouncing his citizenship because of the U.S.'s foolish intervention in the middle east. So what the president in the film is a pervert? That's Hollywood's view of balance. "We'll admit that Democrats are perverts, but you admit that everything about you and your GOP worldview is Nazified and 110% evil! That's fair!" The evil Gov't in Spartan veiled itself in patriotism and mantras of working in "America's best interest". The key message of the film was that the war on terror is a sham and neo-cons are fascists, and all noble leftists basically have "no home" (referring to the final line)in modern day America.

[sonofatpatcher2]

I guess we did see two different films as I remember nothing in the film suggesting the William H. Macy character was a Neo-Con. Matter of fact, nothing suggested anyone was a Neo-Con...

The "Stay out of the desert" comment was because the aroma of American tobacco can be smelled in the desert.

And where you got: "The evil Gov't in Spartan veiled itself in patriotism and mantras of working in "America's best interest". The key message of the film was that the war on terror is a sham and neo-cons are fascists, and all noble leftists basically have "no home" (referring to the final line)in modern day America" is beyond me.

I suggest you rewind the film you watched and see it again...