We live (I’m informed) in thankfully enlightened times. With the assent to power of Mr Obama in the US and the liberal majority of Iran standing up against outdated dogma, you could be mistaken for feeling we stand at the edge of an epoch, a liberal enlightening. Of course two swallows does not a summer make, however the march of political correctness has forced an unwilling world to face up to age old inequities, making good old fashioned bigots stare down the barrel of equality. Quite right too.

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As the song says “America, fuck yeah”. Welcome to war torn Iraq, March 2003, where the occupants of an American tank have become separated from the rest of their company due to a malfunction. While squabbling amongst themselves they are ambushed by some generic “Arab” types. The crew are quickly incapacitated as the generic Middle Eastern assailants advance upon them.

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