Tom Toles for April 27, 2011

Obama claimed the pretext of humanitarian intervention in Libya. What does he call what is happening in Syria?

beenthere41 said, about 1 hour ago:

Obama claimed the pretext of humanitarian intervention in Libya. What does he call what is happening in Syria?

Likely “an unplanned for humanitarian crisis.”

How do you choose which crisis you’re going to commit military resources to?

If you’re McCain, you choose ‘em all.

Maybe there should be a rule that there’s a tax surcharge for every war, based on the cost of the previous one.

^ I’m with you, ARodney.

That’s funny, righties…a few years ago you were claiming that Bara…I-I mean Saddam Hussein had managed to smuggle all his WMDs into Syria aboard a fleet of coverted airliners.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlasshrugs/2006/01/iraqswmds_secr.html

Now, you DON’T want us to invade immediately? What gives?

Incidentally, this cartoon is very similar to one by a Russian cartoonist that showed up on gocomics recently.

http://www.gocomics.com/viewsamerica/2011/04/24/

The tax for war is first born child,(metaphorical “first”) at least for over 4,000 American families so far. Not to mention those disabled for life (like my son). Yep, that’s cheap gas all right.

Funny we claim to care about foreign oil, but refuse to drill in our own offshore continental shelf. Guess we would rather fight than risk messing up the environment. Birds>Soldiers