[credit: Kevin Seirs, Charlotte Observer]
Indeed! The 'toon sums up the election of 2012. A choice that is not a choice between an elitist mannequin and a hapless barker. It will come down to who alienates the least number of "moochers" who still care enough to vote.
US Person always came out for Ginger, by the way. Mary Ann reminded him of a sister he never had.
The last of the Afghanistan "surge", 33,000 extra troops committed by Alibama to the failed neocolonial expedition are returning home
[painting right, "Remnant of an Army"]. There are still 68,000 US forces and 40,000 NATO troops in Afghanistan. Troop morale is low in the face of 51 "insider" killings so far this year by supposedly friendly Afghan soldiers. Joint patrols have been curtailed by NATO as a result, a setback for US strategy. While the US Defense Secretary claims the surge altered the Taliban's battlefield momentum, the decades-old insurgency still enjoys support and aid within the borders of another supposed ally, Pakistan, from which it can launch raids into Afghanistan at will. Osama Bin Laden was able to successfully hide in Pakistan for almost ten years after being allowed to escape from the mountain redoubt of Tora Bora.
