Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 03, 2013

Yes, it is a repeat but the message is still fresh.We want to get out of Afghanistan but we are bogged down by the obvious fact they are simply not ready to take over their own destiny.The only reasonable solution is to withdraw anyway and just continue to launch drone strikes at those who continue to support actions which would kill Americans.(Or extend Reagan’s Star Wars and simply blast them from space with our imaginary laser devices. Everything was imaginary at one time.)

Proven indeed!

OMG, the sky’s falling!

aliens again

Fool me once, shame on you.Fool me twice, shame on me.Fool me always, I’m in Government. - My own addition to the classic quote

See the movie “The Mouse That Roared” (1959) starring Peter Sellers to see where this plan comes from. Then read the novel by Leonard Wibberly. Much funnier than Trudeau.

Susan, I was thinking the same thing in regard to shut down of US Embassies this weekend. This strip seems very topical indeed. Then again, trouble in the Mideast never seems to go away…

nice theory….but its a re-run…..

Ahhh…….. nice try, it was the Jihadists that did the damage.

You can fool most of the people most of the time but the government has been fooling all of the people all the time!

This re-run is still timely.

Only an idiot like Bush would fall for it!

No, it’s not only Bush. Any time some chicken hawk wraps himself in the flag and dances around chanting, “Support the troops! Your country needs this!” we got us another war.

As soon as they get tired of funding the zealots in the Middle East, Africa is next. One of the reasons Mugabe stole the election…

Old news. US no longer cares if consulates or embassies are attacked.

That’s either a really bad joke or you are completely nuts!

A model almost repeated in “Romanov and Juliet” and in real life by the Conch Republic in Fla.

In which of his two books did he say that? I’ve read both, and I don’t recall that line anywhere. Chapter, please. Otherwise I’ll be forced to conclude that, while you may not be racist, you ARE willing to uncritically believe and regurgitate whatever nonsense you hear that supports your preconceptions.

“go with what gave Hirohito an excuse to surrender.”.And after we launch a nuke attack, what high ground can we claim when they get ahold of a suitcase nuke (or similar “dirty” device) and use it against us?If they nuked us first, we’d have the world on our side and they know it. If we nuke them first, much of the world will hate us, and figure we got what we deserved if it happened to us. And at that point, what would stop them? Indeed, it might give the radicals in a place like Pakistan the desire to provide them with such a bomb.And where would you drop our bomb? There are terrorist cells all over the planet; should we try and nuke every one of them?I’m very glad you aren’t in the government, and that even most of our political and military leaders don’t “think” as you do. The world is a mad enough place without people like you making it madder.

Cheney wants to invest!

And yet you’re here, reading and taking the time to comment almost every day. You must lead a very rich and rewarding life.

I was hoping this would come round again, it’s one of my all time favourites