Way back in March, during the “Saddam Hussein era,” I blogged that many of those against the forceful overthrow of Saddam’s government endorsed a “whack-a-mole” strategy for dealing with international threats. Yesterday, Cox and Forkum posted a January 2003 print cartoon making the same analogy, although it focuses specifically on the threat of al Qaeda terrorists. Rather than endlessly whack the individual moles, the cartoon suggests pulling the plug on their sources of power: Iran and Saudi Arabia.
In a closely related cartoon we can see that, as the anti-war activists claim, it really IS “all about oil.”