Cartoon: Urge to Surge 2: Afghanistan!
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This is a sequel to my Iraq Surge cartoon from 2007. Just because Obama sounds so calm and reasonable (and can pronounce nuclear) doesn't make the victims of his bloody endless war any less dead or tortured.
As I was sketching this cartoon Sunday I got a comment from a reader wondering why I hadn't expressed my irritation with Obama lately. I told him it was mostly out of disappointment/avoidance, but this surge thing most certainly required comment.
Labels: afghanistan, cwa, obama, toons, war
2 Comments:
Clever one, Mikhaela. I like the idea of comparing war to a product that needs to be marketed to the public, since that what wars are (especially needless ones).
So the next question I ask myself when I see the minimal change in foreign policy between Bush and Obama is: why?
The answer I have come to is that the military-industrial-prison complex has control of foreign policy, not the president. And they make money off wars.
--GM
I'm a huge Obama fan, and to me, there is a massive difference between his foreign policy and Bush's. He does virtually none of the things that drove me crazy about Bush, and has almost none of Bush's dreadful beliefs.
My answer for why there appears to be no difference to you all is because you are so far to the left, you barely notice changes in policy if they are within the mainstream of the political spectrum. Thankfully you aren't in charge of our country.
Obama '12 ! :)
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