I like this cartoon and what the author is trying to get across.This cartoon was published first in The Ottawa Citizen, a Canadian newspaper so I liked how it was focused not just at Americans, but the Western world as a whole. The regularity of war and violence from the Middle East is always on the news, the radio, bottom right hand of the front page on the newspaper, its everywhere. A suicide bomber kills 18 on a bus in Baghdad, Israeli warships kill 26 including 2 babies, or Hamas/Hezbollah rockets kill 4 Kindergartners in Israel. So what? It's become just another headline and I think that is what Cardon is trying to get at; that it's no longer terrible violence or bloodshed or war, its just the news. Even the clock on the sign shows it, we don't know if there will be another war in the Middle East, we plan on it, even predict it.
so I didn't get to see this cartoon so I didn't respond yet. I'm in your group and I think we are supposed to comment on each others pages. I agree with you on the whole war isn't war it's just news. That is the way they want it to be. If we are constantly thinking about the negativity it breeds its self over and over. Here is a thought has there ever been a time of world wide peace? answer is no.
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