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? Oh, I got it...but a cartoon trying to make that point should make a mockery of the brass, not use a ludicrous comic depiction of a quadriplegic soldier as the comic centerpiece. That crosses over a line between satirical and tasteless.
. . . a cartoon trying to make that point should make a mockery of the brass . . . . . . as long as we mentioned Bill Mauldin, he was the Past Master of making fun of the brass hats . . .
"Beautiful view. Is there one for the enlisted men?"
"Tell th' old man we'll be late on account of a thousand-mile detour."
"... I'll never splash mud on a dogface again (999) ... I'll never splash mud on a dogface again (1000) ... Now will ya help us push?"
This vile cartoonist Toles is lower than whale excrement in the bottom of the Marianas Trench. He's not fit to shovel Bill Mauldin's privy -- from the INside.