If history serves as precedent, Obama could use the long news blackout of the Labor Day weekend to launch an air war against Syria. Seems like a good time to look back at some cartoons that anticipated this moment – work about American intentions to attack Syria, and about militarism in general.
The U.S. is supporting Islamist rebels in Syria who are terribly reminiscent of the mujahedeen in Afghanistan:
As in the 1980s, we support them enough to win, not enough to make them like us:
Bush wanted to attack Syria in 2003:
And of course, there’s the bigger issue:
