Gary Varvel for November 02, 2019

Wishful thinking.

Isn’t it amusing how we kill people at will.

Before 2017, I wouldn’t have thought we’d ever have so much in common with Isis.

How many times has Trump defeated ISIS 100% so far?

I can’t remember how many al-Qaeda Number 2’s they killed. It’s like the show “The Prisoner”: There’s always a Number 2 and it changes every week.

It’s the non-mainstream, alt-reality, religious ideology that needs to be eradicated … making martyrs doesn’t help. Apparently we don’t know how to turn alt-reality ideas around.

Evil in the World is learning America can now find you anywhere. I can’t believe this austere religious leader blew himself up with there of his children.

Evil in the world is learning that America can be just as evil.

I thought the Orange One wanted to stay out of the business of the middle east?

I thought for a second this was a cartoon about Trump’s DHS Secretaries. He appointed his 5th yesterday.

When will men learn that they can’t kill an ideology? If they could, the United States would be Great Britain West.

Bombs breed contempt.. and, America is breeding a lot.

You are SO right. Oughtta leave em alone so they can cook up more 9-11 tricks, kill thousands of Americans at a time. What a maroon….

Its a cockroach army, there will always be a new leader.

I seem to recall a small incident referred to as 9/11.

Navion, that incident carried out by Saudi Arabians?

Like FDR said, “A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”

“One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter”

Discuss. ;-)

Must be a really good type of fertilizer available out there. Despicable people like the Weasel in the White House and al-Baghdadi keep springing up like noxious weeds.

Who is (or was) Number 2?

Al-Baghdadi wasn’t number 1. He was the Marketing/Sales/Recruiting person. ISIS is a decentralized organization run by experienced military officers from Sadam’s Baathist party. He was the religious representative as a decedent of the family of Mohamed as is prescribed by Shia tradition. Just more evidence that ignorance is a traditional republican value. They don’t want to be seen as educated and elitist.

And it’s all about money, oil and power.

So how long has the US (and its allies?) been trying to hunt down al Baghdadi? And how long did it take him to pick up the reins after bin Laden was killed? Does this sequential head-removal seem like it’s actually doing anything useful to you ?

I believe it would be far more reasonable to work on fixing their grievances… which is not a job for an outsider… but if we did: Just saturation bomb them with fully-equipped halal-compliant field kitchens, complete with WiFi hotspots and farming implements, every bit of it clearly embossed with “product of the USA”

Lets try a little mental exercise…

If ISIS through some sort of miracle managed to assassinate Trump. Would America back down and wave a white flag? If they then assassinated the Vice President, would America wave a white flag?

Fine, the US is at war with ISIS… and as such people are being killed. I’m not going to argue that there is anything wrong with killing ISIS #1. I’m just saying that nobody should get their hopes up with thoughts of “yay, we won the war”

Sorry Varvel but hate lasts for generations and generations, and generationssssssssssssssssss…………..

Thank Bush and Cheney for creating the ISIL base by kicking the founders out of Iraq, and letting ‘em take their weapons with ‘em. There actual numbers are less than the NYPD, but getting rid of ‘em is going to be like swatting mosquitos, or Al Qaeda, or many other groups.

I’ve never seen so many people who hate America in one place before. Breath taking.

As tho the supply of fundamentalist preachers would soon run out, lol.This is not the only thing the war on terror has in common with the war on drugs.