The drones create more terrorist than they kill.
This cartoon was published in 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, and it's one of my favorite cartoons of all time for its insight at a time when most people were boarding the Revenge Train.
I am surprised that was around in 2001 seems a bit early
Exactly, and it's this broad lack of insight by politicians and the public that has us involved in as many wars as we're involved in right now.
Drones were not well known back then neither was the knowledge we needed to fight guerrilla warfare
I don't think it's necessarily about drones, just the US's belief that we can eradicate radicalism by bombing it out of existence.
That is very true. I just wonder if their was another way besides drones or war.
My inkling would be not to get involved in other nation's internal politics. But hindsight is 20/20, and all that jazz... The US has been trying to influence world events since the end of WWII for its own benefit (and before really, but it wasn't as influential before). Our current foreign policy is always rooted in fixing the problems that emerge from our past foreign policy. How exactly you extricate yourselves from all the problems your meddling causes is no doubt a difficult task, but continuing the current path of trying to fix our problems with bombs is a failing strategy that has been failing for a long, long time. I like Ron Paul's analogy of the Vietnam War. That was a clusterfuck of monumental proportions, and force was the only answer the US had to try and solve the "problem." Once we withdrew and conceded the loss, and enough time had passed to let them heal from our aggression, Vietnam is now a friend of ours. We trade with them, our diplomats visit, their president comes here; what we achieved in peace was unattainable in 20 years of the French and Americans attempting to achieve it through warfare. I'd like to believe this is repeatable; that peace says more about us than war. But first we need politicians who are ready to embrace peace as a worthy idea, and we currently have two parties that believe that whipping people into a state of fear and panic is a far easier path to reelection, and this informs their attitudes about using force overseas, because the public is demanding the bombs they've whipped us into believing are the answer.
True the political system we have now is fucked up to where politicians prefer reelection than to better their country.
