Time for Michael Bay to give back to his country

Newsweek reports that we’ve finally found an effective way to combat the Iraq War insurgency: marry our love of cartoonish violence with Muslim extremists’ passion for American cultural exports like True Lies and Executive Decision.

A Lebanese film company has joined forces with an American one to film a 60-second PSA that simulates a Baghdad suicide bombing on a Los Angeles street. Plans are to discourage the use of the tactic by airing the spot on Iraqi television during terrorist prime time peak hours–sandwiched in between “According to Osama” and “CSI: Tikrit.”

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