Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 10, 2015

‘… We are running out of bogeymen…’ “…Any volunteers?”

Call Roger Ailes STAT !!!

As long as there are humans, there will be those perceived to be enemies. Certainly the Taliban and ISIS perceive those in the west to be enemies. You don’t have to make them. You just decide that they are enemies, and they are…

It should be remembered that Bogeymen are not real, only endless false fears to control the children.

We have bogeymen alright (Taliban and ISIS), but we also have congressmen that don’t want to send troops right before an election.

Bogeymen – is that the same as the “Bad Guys”?

Hey, we can always invade Iraq again.

If only.

what is the difference between a make believe ogre and lying..??

Yeah, only in cartoon world…

Here in Vespucciland, we have always needed a specific bogeyman. The Taliban and ISIS just don’t make the grade, because we need a face that we can hate. Saddam? Face. Bin Ladin? Face. Hitler? Face. We just don’t get that worked up over a faceless enemy.

Politicians make perfectly acceptable “bogeymen”.

“Make”, as in “create”?.Acceptable to whom?

He’s the Universal SoldierSing Along

There seems to be a consensus among commenters here that real danger does not exist. I imagine you agree on other pleasant fictions, too. You are bonkers.

Read enough history and you find out just how true this statement is. . .(Hitler/Nazies notwithstanding).

Just reuse the old ones.

GOP is working on war with Iran, that and the required 20 year occupation should keep the arms manufacturers in reliable profits……

We spend $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to scare us for entertainment. The military/industrial complex taps into that market for their own $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. We will reap what we sow.

Read Orwell’s “1984”.

Never run out of bogeymen, unfortunately.

Many ways of looking at their dilemma. Maybe that they are the problem; or their ability to create new illusions. For the institutional paranoid, most hallucinations are expensive.

Only need “bogeymen” when you run out of real enemies. Need to have some perceived danger to justify massive weaponry build up. Not a problem since WWII.A bigger problem today seems to be figuring out who your friends are. In the Iraq-Syria-Afghanistan-Turkey-Iran debacle the “friend” we arm today inevitably becomes tomorrow’s enemy. This is likely to go on ad infinitum so we won’t need bogeymen for a while.

There will always be a “them”. No worries.

All right, men….. with so little to do – it’s time to line up and pass out some more medals

“Your post is incredibly profound….”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I wish I could find dtroutma’s post so I could know what the hill you’re talking about.

Russia, who everyone wanted to trust and embrace, may not be the old USSR, but it’s putting on most of the costume and gear to take over the role.

Remember when 30 Cubans on Grenada had to be conquered before they could invade America, how about Manuel Noriega? Sometimes the bogey’s take real imagination to fear.

Which, about press coverage: On CBS morning show, film clips of news, like in 1959 when they accidentally dropped an atomic bomb on South Carolina, that didn’t detonate, it rated about 26 seconds of news coverage, and the question was how many weeks, or longer, would the media blow this up today?? (Saw them nearly lose a B-52 with a bomb nearly out of the bay at March AFB- it never made any news at all.)

Yes, the media’s job today is to keep the children frightened.

follow the money

It seems like Wiley has fallen into the same trap as most political cartoonists. They can’t distinguish between the war mongers (politicians) and the war fighters (soldiers).

Politicians start wars and expect soldiers to finish them.

Would that this were true…

dflak: The stars on the shoulders and all the medals prove these are NOT the guys who do the actual war fighting. Which we now have several times the number of flag officers we had in WW II, and mostly they just run projects with contractors to benefit the MIC.

The decorations Nazi is at it again: “No more ribbons for you!!!”

We have always been at war with Oceania.

Roger Ailes at a Fox News Conference

I’m afraid of the Boogerman……

But they have all those nice medals for sending other people into war …

We always had “thems”. Sad but true. Moreover, to someone out there, we are the “them”. I liked it better when the REAL enemy was Martians. Uh-oh, I just spotted the XXVth Roman Legion over the hill. Duck and Cover !!

Now that they’ve run out of boogiemen they may have to go after real enemies.

ooh, ooh, pick me!

The problem is that the General Public is beginning to suffer from Bogeyman Burnout..They tune in Faux Nooze and think to themselves:“I’ve seen worse than That on my Playstation.”.Which, these days, is sadly True.