Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 12, 2014

If you invite ISIS, they won’t leave.

Good to see Duke still smoking and using the old-fashioned cigarette holder.

Not ISIS call them Daesh.

for all of you kvetching about reruns… :-P

You know you’re in trouble when Duke is the voice of reason.

New material on the way as well as here today…

First new Sunday episode in 2 weeks, but daily 1970’s reruns continue anyway…

You said it, wordymom!

If we get Isis in Egypt, can Osiris be far behind?

Per this morning’s news, ISIS is approaching Baghdad. Good thing we got our troops out just in time. (Think about it.)

Why didn’t Gary publish this strip when we were arming the ‘moderate’ rebels the 1st time? Regardless, the last line just made me laugh out loud!

Does laughing at this strip make you party to genocide?

Doubt you can invite ISIS. If they have the weapons, they will come.

Oh the insult. Looks like trff has plagiarized America’spolicy to manage the middle east.

“First I hire a freelance jihadist.” Think about it. A GT classic.

Uh, why do you always assume “we” are wrong?.Have you spoken with someone recently from that part of the world? Maybe heard an interview? The story’s the same everywhere: ISIS (or ISIL, if you prefer) came in by whatever means, then turned oppressive, and the people now regret letting or inviting or electing them in..That’s not a U.S. perspective; it’s the universal perspective of people who have to live with them. The U.S. leadership is wrong plenty often, but not every time.

“Why can’t we let other countries run their own affairs?”Well, for one thing, we need the oil of countries with oil. When we were looking for Commies under our beds, we had to be sure that whoever was in charge wasn’t a Commie. (Cf. assassination of Patrice Lumumba, according to some analysts.) “American interests” usually determine what our govt. does, and some of our actions are short sighted and have unintended consequences. As a whole, I think most of us mean well, and that all countries have their moments, but there must be some reason why so many people are clamoring to get here.

The Tampa Bay Times, as per usual with a lot of Sunday comics, did not run the first two panels today. Those panels really were needed, as they show that Trff is not really in Bezerkistan, just mooning away in his room. Pbbbllthhh to you, TBT! :-P

“Why can’t we let other countries run their own affairs?”.We do. That’s why they are invading other countries.Stop blaming President Obama for everything..“Why must one religion try to apply it’s values and beliefs on other religions?”.Why should we give up our values just because someone else thinks slaughter is a wonderful thing?Why are you using your value system to question ours?Are you a closeted tyrant?Discus it with the ISIS folks and I feel sure they will quickly answer all your questions..” ISIS may be bad from our perspective, but how about from theirs? Why are we always assumed to be right?”.Why do we think we are right? Because if we thought we were wrong, we would change our minds.Why do you assume we are wrong?Mighty narrow-minded of you.

OMG, I agree with Nighty on something!

masterskrain Travis, I wonder who in Cheney’s office sold Trff the plans >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<I guess I missed the part where Cheney bailed out of Iraq and left them vulnerable and the part where we dumped tons of arms into Syria to arm ISIL.

Funny, Trff’s plans seem to be precisely what’s playing out in Iraq, except the Jews in Arab lands were basically all driven out at the same time the combined Arab nations attacked the newly recognized state of Israel.

It all depends on whether the Copti can carry off a successful “Good Copt, Bad Copt” routine.

No, Cheney didn’t bail out of Iraq, that was bush, right before he so eptly dodged those shoes. Only thing he ever did well, although the local worshipers can find no fault in him whatsoever.

No, that was the Libyans who did Benghazi. Obama’s to blame for that. Unless bush is to blame for what happened during his “administration”.

Bush was only responsible for the past 5 years of disasters.