The closest thing this is an apt metaphor for is dropping an Army into enemy territory without a plan, turning them into targets through your own complete incompetence.
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caingl
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How hard would it have been to make the bubble point at the dinosaur's face instead of his foot, god damn it Bruce.
The Bipedal Brontosaurus! The missing link between four-legged dinosaurs and...and...that other animal that had 2 hind legs and no front legs or forearms or wings or...umm... Wait, I got it! The SHMOO!Way to depict basic anatomy, Brucie! I suppose that it looked like it had 4 legs once your double vision kicked in.
Unfortunately for the analogy, we are in fact always dealing with same species when it comes to negotiations and not predators who require eating us for survival.
On the plus side: Tinkley's trying to be vaguely topical by referring to Obama's upcoming speech in Egypt.
On the minus side: The message of today's "comic" is that we should be so afraid of people with whom we don't get along, that we shouldn't even talk to them.
One thing to be thankful for is that we never had fanatic neocon loons like Cheney in the executive office during the Cold war. With their views on "one-percent doctrines", "pre-emptive" war without "waiting for the smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud", and "never, never, ever talk", we probably would have had an all-out nuclear exchange by 1963.
Yeah, the Soviet Union and the USA never ever not even once engaged in diplomatic talks EVAR! At all. Nope nope nope never happened.
Most of the tough guy, hard-stance tall of the cold war served no purpose other then to feed the military industry buckets of money. The Soviet could never hope to take on the US in any sort of direct confrontation, and certainly by the end of the 60s, Soviet doctrine was centered around protecting Soviet forces from the attack commanded by hard-line exterminationist US policymakers (coughCheney) long enough to launch the counter attack.
WV: medalmi - What Tinkley hopes the Repugnicants will do to him. It would have to be the incotinental medal of dishonor, granted for high achievement in making shit up and choking in his own vomit.
So is Bruce "I was against the Iraq War despite never once drawing a cartoon against it" Tinsley saying the way to handle nations like Iran is...the same policy we held in Iraq?
Oh, I get it! Our enemies are evil, of a completely different species, and we can never reason with them, ever!
When Tinsley watches his Japanese TV, then puts on Chinese clothes and drives his German car to the store to pick up his Russian vodka, does it at any point occur to him that, hey, some of our former evil enemies turned into pretty good partners (or at least good trading partners) within a mere couple of decades?
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How hard would it have been to make the bubble point at the dinosaur's face instead of his foot, god damn it Bruce.
The Bipedal Brontosaurus! The missing link between four-legged dinosaurs and...and...that other animal that had 2 hind legs and no front legs or forearms or wings or...umm...
Wait, I got it! The SHMOO!Way to depict basic anatomy, Brucie! I suppose that it looked like it had 4 legs once your double vision kicked in.
Unfortunately for the analogy, we are in fact always dealing with same species when it comes to negotiations and not predators who require eating us for survival.
Umm... Velociraptors are only 1.5 feet tall.. so unless Bob is a house cat I think Bob is alright.
Wow, I never knew that Al Qaeda, Iran, and North Korea required the consumption of American flesh to survive! Oh the things you'll learn!
I suppose when you surround yourself with hard-right propaganda 24/7, you probably think of The Enemy* as sub-human creatures, too.
*Check the Official Enemy List for Up to Date information on who The Enemy is! Would you like to know more?
On the plus side: Tinkley's trying to be vaguely topical by referring to Obama's upcoming speech in Egypt.
On the minus side: The message of today's "comic" is that we should be so afraid of people with whom we don't get along, that we shouldn't even talk to them.
Cowardice: it's the reichwing way!
One thing to be thankful for is that we never had fanatic neocon loons like Cheney in the executive office during the Cold war. With their views on "one-percent doctrines", "pre-emptive" war without "waiting for the smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud", and "never, never, ever talk", we probably would have had an all-out nuclear exchange by 1963.
Cheers,
JBC
Yeah, the Soviet Union and the USA never ever not even once engaged in diplomatic talks EVAR! At all. Nope nope nope never happened.
Most of the tough guy, hard-stance tall of the cold war served no purpose other then to feed the military industry buckets of money. The Soviet could never hope to take on the US in any sort of direct confrontation, and certainly by the end of the 60s, Soviet doctrine was centered around protecting Soviet forces from the attack commanded by hard-line exterminationist US policymakers (coughCheney) long enough to launch the counter attack.
Oh, fuck!
Straw dinosaurs.
WV: medalmi - What Tinkley hopes the Repugnicants will do to him. It would have to be the incotinental medal of dishonor, granted for high achievement in making shit up and choking in his own vomit.
So is Bruce "I was against the Iraq War despite never once drawing a cartoon against it" Tinsley saying the way to handle nations like Iran is...the same policy we held in Iraq?
Oh, I get it! Our enemies are evil, of a completely different species, and we can never reason with them, ever!
When Tinsley watches his Japanese TV, then puts on Chinese clothes and drives his German car to the store to pick up his Russian vodka, does it at any point occur to him that, hey, some of our former evil enemies turned into pretty good partners (or at least good trading partners) within a mere couple of decades?
@Bill
No feet? Maybe Rob Liefeld is ghost-artisting.
Bruce Tinsley has an obsession with dinosaurs. So do many four-year-old children.
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