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So American

So I was listening to NPR online yesterday, jetlagged in the middle of the night in Mumbai, monsoon rains lashing my hotel windows facing the Arabian Sea, while inking a new cartoon when I heard an American general explain how the Army had spent zillions to adapt one of its main personnel vehicles for mountainous Afghanistan. (It had originally been designed for flat, paved Iraq.) This, he crowed, was why things were going better there—we’re learning!

I wondered: Why didn’t they spend the money to pave the roads instead?

Ted Rall
http://rall.com
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."

1 Comment.

  • Tyler Durden
    August 4, 2010 2:00 PM

    I caught “Charlie Wilson’s War on AMC this weekend.
    I was aware of the subject matter, yet I wondered if anyone else felt sick like I did during the last 45 minutes.

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