Gotta say, I'm a liberal who sometimes posts at Free Republic, and I'm shocked at the unanimity with which you all don't get this cartoon. The troops are being done wrong by their civilian leaders--as the cartoon suggests--just like in Vietnam. If you're not holding those civilian leaders to account, how can you respect the troops?
There are other ways to make this point if you truly think our leaders are not doing enough to protect our troops. You liberals seem to forget every day that this is war and there are casualities in war!
There are other ways to make this point if you truly think our leaders are not doing enough to protect our troops. You liberals seem to forget every day that this is war and there are casualities in war!
I tend to agree with you. The quadraplegic soldier is being used as a symbol for the military which is at least somewhat overstretched. It's extremely tasteless to use the soldier like that, but really just incidental. Rumsfeld is the one being ridiculed in this cartoon as being overly rosey.