As the U.S. withdraws from an Iraq it destroyed, it wonders how Iraqis will do on their own.
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, 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 "The Stringer."
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Fortunately, there are other housewives to batter – in Afghanistan and Pakistan, for example, and perhaps Iran is next ? How would the world manage without the US military – and those who tag along with it, like most notably the UK, but even my country, Sweden ?…
Henri
Turns out not very well, its still a country with three separate types of people that don’t really like each-other, and would kinda like to see the others dead. It’s Amazing America doesn’t do a better job of uniting people by going i attacking them, creating a political system for them, and telling them to get along.
“Well, sarge, we’ll devolve quickly into the civil war for which your 20 years of egregious genocide has primed us. Those of us who manage to survive that will be reminded of your generosity as we experience generations of genetic monsters that your gift of depleted uranium will keep on giving.”
can we have a do-over?
@rossevrymn
This was the do-over.
It corrected all the things not done Desert Storm.
Don’t you feel that we invested trillions in a worthwhile cause?
I may be biased, but I think your cartoons are at their best when they talk about the warfare state.
nom du jour, please tell me we’ve learned a lesson. Actually, the cost of war may be the only thing that inhibits future wars. I’m grasping.