Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 21, 2024

Yep, we supported him.

Might be the same cave where bin Laden was finally brought down by US Navy Seals—the crowning achievement of the Obama administration.

USA- we are the world’s worst nightmare- Murdered the Mideast and nuked Japan to be total superpower, then let China surpass us in return for cheap trinkets we are too lazy to make ourselves, now the earth and people are being blown apart by our bombs and bullets and missiles that we distribute as the worlds super arms dealer. Jeez, we need help. Don’t even think about our gun crazed citizens and all the shootings here, or an insane racist right wing forcing girls to have babies, burning books, forcing their religion on everybody, etc! Better vote Democratic, slow down our demise until aliens arrive and save us, because I am sure they will be really nice folks.

So that’s where that hydrogen sulfide smell comes from…

bin Laden turned against the U.S. when we deployed for Desert Storm.

Who wrote “Unleash Chang Kai-Shek”?

Okay,now where’s the nearest fresh water?

Yep and a director of the CIA supported Saddam Hussein, I think he was George HW Somethin ……. OOooops !

Afghanistan is where many Western nations made stupid mistakes.

I realize that unless it’s “the” Osama bin Laden the joke would be pointless. But it is true that the name isn’t actually all that rare in the Middle East.

Cave of the Patriarchs. Or at least of the warlords.

This sequence refers to the failure of US troops to explore deeply enough into the Tora Bora caves where Bin Laden was hiding.

Unless you read Farsi, you wouldn’t be able to read their names.

Osama bin Laden died in a million-dollar compound in a residential neighborhood.

Am I really the only one who thought, “Rollie can read Arabic?” I mean, seriously, the Mujahedeen did not sign the walls in the Great Satan’s language (or alphabet).