Ted Rall for August 04, 2021

This is meant to be another display of false equivalency, right?

What Artemis said above is correct: it is all part of the industrial-military complex. Just because a Centrist replaced a tyrant as figurehead does not mean that clandestine activities ceased. Its business as usual to all the government agencies involved in these activities with their plausible deniability so even if Joe was aware of such activities as Ted implies in the last panel, he can simply claim that he did not know. Hell it worked for Teflon Ron. As far as the anti-vaxxers, I am all for the social medial platforms just banning Bobby Kennedy’s kid and those other 11 nimrods responsible for a large majority of the misinformation out there but it will never happen and even if one of them did get blocked, one of their surrogates would simply take over like we see with the haters from the far-right.

In 2022 when Republicans regain congress things will be a lot better, right? /S

Drone attacks even inside allied nations such as Pakistan seem to have become the norm for the U.S. They are conducted under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force passed by Congress to fight Al-Queda in Afghanistan.

Try to keep up Theodore. Biden is ending our misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s now time for you to bitch about America again abandoning third world countries it wrecks.

False equivalence is the tool of people who have nothing to say.

Sure.. but those guys are baby eating scum.. FB is killing good old flag waving MAGA hat wearing Americans.

I did almost 25 years in the military. I understand Ted’s squeamishness for using drones, but….

Let’s look at this from an Infantryman’s point of view.

We know that there is a bad guy in a Taliban compound. We could call in indirect fire and let the artillery sort it out. Or B-52’s, like Viet-Nam. Or naval gunfire. But then we wouldn’t be sure, did we get the target? And we there would also be many, many collateral casualties.

OR….

We can send in a platoon of Infantrymen, and do what is called DC, direct contact. Our boys kick down the door and assault their way through the compound, section by section.

Let’s think about how dangerous this is. What a great risk of life to US servicemen. It might look cool in the movies, but in real life, it is what I call “Bad News”.

OR….

We could send in a drone and let some operator on a carrier deck 1000’s of miles away do his job. Quick, easy, efficient, no risk at all to American lives. Minimum collateral damage. We can even send in a mop-up team afterwards and gather intell and do BDA.

So, in the end, if I were president, I would base my decision on the potential loss of life to American servicemen, considering the significance and purpose of the mission.

Our MI troops do an incredible job of gathering intell and presenting it to the commander for him/her to make a decision. Biden isn’t just rubber stamping drone assassinations. But when he does approve a drone mission, he is saving US servicemember lives.

Wish the USA would quit meddling in places we don’t belong. Seems like we do more harm than good whenever we put ‘boots on the ground’.

Lambasted for ending wars, now accused of secret wars. Damned if he doesn’t and if he does. There is no pleasing some trolls.

making jokes about Biden’s age…………that’s Theodore’s job.

Human species had a marginally good run. About time for nature to proceed forward.