Team America

I'm not sure it's entirely possible to classify Team America as either a left-wing or right-wing satire. It seemed to me like the producers are going after everyone, right and left, no one is spared. If we take Team America as the right-wing, the opening scenes are pretty relevant: the American centrist Team America tries to 'help' and actually just makes everything more chaotic, by destroying Cairo and knocking down the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, and the Arc de Triomphe (resemble the war in Iraq to anyone else?). If then, we take the Film Actors Guild (FAG) as the left-wing we see too, that neither is the liberal viewpoint accomlishing anything - too embittered towards America, the actors fail to lay blame on the actual perpertrators of the attacks and end up blowing up Team America headquarters and allying themselves with the enemy. In the end, it seems an almost total role reversal - the actors are violently attacking Team America (though they do get equally violently killed) in the name of peace and Team America is using words (albeit completely ridiculous ones) to save the world. Yes, Team America wins out in the end but it is not with the same 'Fuck Yeah' attitude: they fight the actors when necessary yes, but they rely also on 'negotiation' and reaching an agreement (of sorts) with the ones they're trying to protect.