Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 29, 2012
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Transcript:
Earl: Dad, I know you've been pretty busy entertaining His Excellency... but things are getting pretty backed up in the office. It'd be good if you actually showed up once in a while. Duke: You sound a bit stressed, boy. Earl: Do I? Maybe it's because we flack for three regimes currently slaughtering their own people. Duke: Though hard to complain in this economy, right, son? Man: What a baby! Earl: See you in the car.
See, about the time our culture was abandoning multiple value systems and everything WAS for sale, people still thought that ‘running a country’ or ‘ruling’ wasn’t just a matter of buying cheap and selling high…if you read enough old books you can find traces of people knowing the difference.Don’t look for any American Reep to understand, though.Now…you can get ‘in’ or stay in just by buying the Supremes or DOJ…and as long as Assad can buy the services of the real Uncle Dukes, or as long as what he spread around State lasts…Syria’s fate is set. Go Ducke…