The Daily Background
| Priorities, Priorities, Priorities…
by Arlen Parsa
So apparently an editorial cartoon has provoked the anger of the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. All 6 of them sent the Washington Post a letter protesting the item. Funny, I didn’t think they would have time to read comics- afterall, there is a war on, you know…
The cartoon points out that U.S. troops in Iraq don’t have the protection they need to carry on their assigned tasks, by showing a 4x amputated soldier, with Rumsfeld standing aside as a doctor proclaiming the amputee “battle hardened.” I’d recommend reading AMERICAblog’s response to the letter, which ends thusly- emphasis mine:
Hey, here’s a thought. Now that the Joint Chiefs have addressed the insidious threat cartoons pose to our troops, perhaps they can move on to less pressing issues like getting them their damn body armor.
Actually, you analyzed the cartoon incorrectly. It is not depicting a soldier wounded due to lack of armor. It is depicting an Army that has been reduced to the point of being unable to conduct furhter operations because the Iraq war has caused it to be stretched beyond its means. The amputee is a metaphore for the Army itself. When a study came out saying the Army was near the breaking point Rumsfeld countered by saying it is an Army that is “battle hardened.”
I do think it is somewhat hypocritical where you think the cartoons depicting Islam should not have been printed and are offensive, yet you find this one funny. I guess when you run a blog, you can pick and choose your standards of right and wrong.
I didn’t say anything about finding the cartoon humorous. I said I found it funny that the JCoS found the time to reply to it. And the analysis (as I said clearly) was from AMERICAblog.
[…] You might remember that other cartoon that was got the Pentagon’s panties all bunched up recently. Well, this seems to be a week for controversial cartoons I guess. From Washington Post’s Jefferson Morley’s blog: As European Newspapers republished controversial images of the Muslim prophet Muhammad from a Danish daily, the cultural conflict between the Islamic world and the West over the drawings continued to flare around the world. […]
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