I guess that between Luke Skywalker's lifelike radicalization, and Palpatine's seizing dictatorship through an emergency-powers clause, _Star Wars_ is the story

I guess that between Luke Skywalker's lifelike radicalization, and Palpatine's seizing dictatorship through an emergency-powers clause, _Star Wars_ is the story of how al-Qaida fought the Nazis... ("You're all a bunch of damn Yankees," as the hillbilly said of the Yale versus Harvard football game, "and I hope you both lose.")