Fascinatingly, but unsurprisingly, this is yet another piece that uses Avatar as a springboard into an essay about real-world human events <i>starting from the claim that Avatar is clearly allegory for one specific such event</i>.  Being from the second wave of such articles, it even takes note of the other interpretations and alleges them to be incorrect.<p>What makes Avatar such a great movie is that A) so many people are so sure it's "about" a particular historical or current situation that they care about and B) they're <i>all different</i>.  I've seen Vietnam, I've seen Iraq, I've seen Afghanistan, I've seen South America or the Americas as a whole, I've seen Africa, I've seen climate change, man, I've seen a <i>lot</i> of different interpretations.<p>James Cameron FTW!