Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 21, 2010
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Transcript:
Jeff: Overkill's people are discreet and professional, Mr. President - not like other security contractors. I urge you to lift the ban for him, Excellency - as a personal favor to me, Sorkh Razil, the Red Rascal of Afghanistan! Hamid Karzai: This I cannot do, my friend. Many already consider me erratic. I must stand fast! Ask for anything else - a dancing boy, perhaps? Jeff: This is not our way. What else you got?
Steve Bartholomew over 13 years ago
How bout money?
Coyoty Premium Member over 13 years ago
Overkill already has a dancing boy.
randgrithr over 13 years ago
I suggest asking for a plane ticket home, ‘cos once Overkill finds out there’s been no progress, Jeff’s nothing but a cool million dollar bounty to him.
BrianCrook over 13 years ago
I flagged them, too, Leon. They will stop when Gocomics figures out how to filter them out & leave us here.
Coyoty, I had the same thought when I read this strip. Also, the Red Rascal had become nothing but a company mascot.
thirdguy over 13 years ago
This is not our way, what else you got! Get something good Jeff! The Red Rascal will make lemonaide out of lemons! Or at least invent a great story to tell about it.
Potrzebie over 13 years ago
Hmm, Afghani customs. When I went to the first Oil War they briefed us on the custom of Arabs (not to be confused with Persians or other major players) that they would be obliged to give a possession to someone if they were complimented on it. (no idea if that extended to wives). Sadly, I was stuck in a tin can in the gulf with no contact with them.
Spamgaard over 13 years ago
AH, yes, those Afghani warlords do love the boys…
Dragoncat over 13 years ago
Even though our “hero” is not getting immediate results, he is handling himself rather well.
I wonder… Perhaps he DID learn something from Havoc after all.
AKHenderson Premium Member over 13 years ago
A shrubbery…one that looks nice…and not too expensive.
ChukLitl Premium Member over 13 years ago
Overkill’s professionals are at Karzai’s bro’s airstrip inspecting his finest cash crops to be offloaded at a discreet mesa South of Nogales.
FriscoLou over 13 years ago
That Rascal is a hard bargainer. He could probably sell rugs to a Baluchi.
rmleon over 13 years ago
Portzebie, Afghanis are not Arabs. They are a variety of groups: Pashtuns, Hazaras, and others. But not Arabs.
queertoons over 13 years ago
When Osama bin Laden and crew were at least relatively openly operating in Afghanistan, locals referred to them collectively as “the Arabs”.
Potrzebie over 13 years ago
rmleon, I know that. I was just wondering if some customs cross over to other Islamic regions?
pbarnrob over 13 years ago
And one of the hallmarks of the Taliban (which didn’t endear them to the Off-The-Shelf Enterprise folks) was their crackdown on the opium trade.
They had almost wiped it out by the time BushCheneyCo intervened, and now it’s restored and more.
So Karzai is in that position of negotiating among the power blocs, as Richard notes. Multi-mucho-bux being floated with very little benefit to the purported goals…