Chip Bok by Chip Bok
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"Chip" Bok has been the staff editorial cartoonist for the Akron Beacon Journal since 1987. Through Creators Syndicate, his cartoons appear in over 100 publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Time, and Newsweek. He is also a regular contributing cartoonist for Reason magazine and serves as a member of the steering committee for The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Arlington, Virginia.
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pbrown280c said, 4 months ago
YES !!
HOWGOZIT said, 4 months ago
Well Done!
lightartsteacher said, 4 months ago
Why don’t we let the CIA choose who to protect? Then if Nancy thinks they are liars, she can choose someone else to keep her safe. Heheheehhee.
nomad2112 said, 4 months ago
By the time the witch is done hunting no one will be safe.
EnglishTeacher said, 4 months ago
lightartsteacher said: “Why don’t we let the CIA choose who to protect?”
The objective form is required: “…whom to protect.”
dtroutma said, 4 months ago
Having lost too many friends to “friendly fire”, I hate these drones and the lousy lack of accurate “human intelligence” in their use- most attacks DO hit the WRONG people(statistically).
Gladius said, 4 months ago
dtroutma,
Are there accurate numbers available comparing human piloted airstrikes vs drones?
dtroutma said, 4 months ago
An issue has been NOT repeating the “body count” from Viet Nam in measuring “success”. At the same time, casualty figures, civilian, military, hostile vs friendly fire, and piloted vs drones is kept so hidden only reports from Afghans, Iraqis and some NGOs have come out, and of course been immediately challenged. Considering the number of times they HAVE shown drones taking out folks based on heat signatures or other targeting criteria, I can’t help but think a pilot would do a lot better. In “Desert Storm” a commander ordered a chopper pilot to fire, when he(the pilot on scene) repeatedly tried to back off. He finally DID fire, against his own judgement, and killed an American armored crew. The commander ordering the fire was using the same “technology” that drone pilots at Nellis have, with nobody out there to even argue.
When they can’t tell an Iraqi armored vehicle from an American one, how do they really tell with confidence people inside a school house who live in the village, from some Al Qaeda dudes passing through town and ordering folks at gun point to feed them?
Having dealt with “Charlie”, and our presumption of guilt in “free fire zones”, I just see us making exactly the same judgement errors again. Killing bad guys, okay. Killing innocent people trapped in their own country and homes, NOT okay.
Sorry, sore subject, and the cause of a great deal of my PTSD “flashbacks”.
churchillwasright said, 4 months ago
^ So your answer is no.
4uk4ata said, 4 months ago
How does Pelosi tie into this? I thought her beef with the CIA had already ended.
Right_On said, 4 months ago
This new CIA tangle is meant to cover Pelosi’s lies … I don’t think it’s going to work.
kreniigh
said,
4 months ago
Can someone please point me to a source for the scenario in panel one, where Pelosi is apologizing to terrorists? I never heard about that happening. I thought the whole problem was that the CIA didn’t report on their activities to Congress, as they are required to do by law.