A Modern Fable

Rating: 9/10 (12 December 2005)

Catch 22 is a fable for our times--the early 21st Century--when the US is waging war to bring western democracy and capitalism to the middle east.
Milo, speaking for the policy makers, articulates almost all of America's foreign policy concepts in the War on Terror.
Those who go against the party line (e.g., Yossarian) are deemed dangerous and anti-American.
The sad part is summed up by the line, "All we want you to do is...like us!" This seems to be the plea the United States makes to the world as we go abroad to spread our Way of Life to Those Who Don't Have It.
In the end, we naysayers are like Yossarian, rowing alone against the tide.