Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for August 14, 2015

A wise diplomat just asserted that diplomacy is not for the weak, but for the truly strong. The easy, cowardly way is to bend others to your will through threats of force. And the USA should not behave as Russia does.. because we should be better than petulant schoolyard bullies who attack those who do not agree with them.

Fear and Hate Trump Logic and Rationality every time, because that’s how humans work! Yes, I used Trump, fits just swell into the argument.

Thee dozen retired generals and admirals wrote an open letter the other day defending the Iran nuclear deal in spite of the Nates of Fox.Calling the agreement “the most effective means currently available to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons,” the letter said that gaining international support for military action against Iran, should that ever become necessary, “would only be possible if we have first given the diplomatic path a chance.”Even a war hawk knows that every other option should be exhausted before plunging into war.

I knew Nate was going to push for attacking the tribe by the northern river!

Governance by “pundit”.

But before the GOP will accept him, he has to believe in forcing women to give birth against their will to unwanted babies.

The Kiwis finally kicked our asses, bless them.

@QuiteDragon:

How’d you do that? Any time you want to lay some lottery numbers on me, feel free.

Ruben posts his cartoons a day early on Daily Kos.

The Boss simply has to get one of those aircraft working if he’s going to hold off Wings Over the World.

The old man in the cave says there is a 94 percent chance Nate is safe to eat.

@ QuiteDragon:

Got it, thanks. Looks like I’m stuck with the animal entrails for the Powerball.

Yeah, lately it is just anyone who has a pulpit and is listened to. No one cares if they are rational or correct, just that they preach the party line.

If have never seen or heard of ONE truly rational solution to all the problems in the Middle East. I really don’t think there is one

The U.S. is like Br’er Fox and the Tarbaby. We’re in too deep to extricate ourselves.

As Jon Stewart pointed out on the Daily Show, people in one part of Iran have preferred to be overrun by ISIS than be governed by the government the US set up for them.

It’s not like we have any other countries’ interests at heart, despite all our fairy-tale rhetoric. We want to exploit them and wage war upon them (or arm both sides of whatever wars they have going on) for nothing more than our own profit. And they’re not as stupid about recognizing that as Nate doubtless tells himself.

Too subtle for me.