Does Anyone Else Find This Cartoon Offensive?

[tekisui]

[ProdigalJunkMail]

1. a little insensitive? yeah...offensive? not really n/t

[tekisui]

3. It takes a broadbrush simplistic look at the various attacks.

Lumps them all into 'al-qaeda/9-11'. It is just more of the drumbeat for the war on terra.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

9. i can see that but most political cartoons could be found offensive to some

so on that note, i would have to agree. but it does make the point that terror-campaigns will continue to march on, regardless of and in many cases because of our intervention...and that no one is really immune.

sP

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. ?

[ck4829]

4. Where's Iraq and the attacks on that Unitarian Church by Jim Adkisson at?

Why did the plane miss those towers?

[tekisui]

6. Predator drones bombing weddings and funerals.

It is wrong on so many counts.

[CBGLuthier]

5. DELETE

DELETE

[tekisui]

7. To me, it less the image of the towers, but more the

narrow view of trying to explain all these attacks as if they were all 'al-qaeda' and the larger message of 'the global war on terra'. That is what I find offensive.

[CBGLuthier]

18. I hate to admit this

I thought the cartoon said something else.

Damn these aging eyes. After magnifying, I agree, it is offensive.

That is why I deleted.

[lunatica]

8. What's the message? That terrorist attacks started on 9/11?

Only in Bush's mind did terror start on that day.

[tekisui]

10. Yeah, that and that it is all one 'Global Waronterra'.

Against one enemy. Stupidest cartoon I've seen in some time.

[zbdent]

33. no, remember?

according to Repukes, terror only started under Clinton ... not Reagan (marine barracks), not Nixon (Olympic hijacking) ...

[screembloodymurder]

11. Sure as hell isn't funny.

What does the first tower represent?

[tekisui]

13. I guess the one that chimpy thought was a 'bad pilot'?

:shrug:

One is an accident, two is terror!

[Captain Hilts]

26. The '93 attack? Sirhan Sirhan? Marine Barracks? Beats me. nt

[nebenaube]

28. The 93 attack(s) bear a startlying resemblance to recent events... n/t

[onenote]

38. the first tower is simply one of the two 9/11 towers.

[One Taste]

12. don't find it offensive

but i really don't get it :shrug:

[tekisui]

15. To me, it is developing this dangerous narrative,

That the Mumbai attacks, although far from the first or worst attacks in India's history, were their initiation to the 'global war on terra'. THis is the meme being repeated and reinforced everytime someone calls the Mumbai attacks "India's 9/11".

I get the strong feeling that there is a line of thinking being pushed throughout the media and by the heads of states, that are pushing India, with US support and involvement to war.

[Joe Fields]

14. no.

[tekisui]

16. ok.

:hi:

[ixion]

17. not offensive, but ridiculous and simplistic

much like the so-called 'war' on terror. This artist is towing the line for endless war, IMO.

[tekisui]

19. That is the interpretation I had.

That line of thinking in the media has long been offensive to me. It is how we got bogged down in an illegal war.

[ixion]

29. fair enough... in the sense of the collective dialog

the idea is unacceptable and offensive, because of the complete lack of intellectual honesty behind the statement.

[Schema Thing]

31. I see a totally different message

namely: America's 9/11 attacks should not be looked at as singularly horrible; this happens around the world.

[ixion]

35. sure.. we're doing this right now in Afghanistan and Iraq and Pakistan

but somehow those countries failed to appear on the list.

My point is that the context is narrow, intellectually dishonest and doesn't include the largest state sponsor of terror in the World: the US.

[tekisui]

40. Thanks, that is a different perspective.

One I didn't realize.

[Solly Mack]

20. It doesn't speak to me, so to speak...I get the message it wants to send

but that message rings false with me

Course, it may say something else to others

but it does seem to have a "911 changed everything" feel about it...that terror starts here and will keep going and going and going....and everyone is having a "911" and so we're all in this together, so join Bush's (and it will always be Bush's) war on terror

As if America was the first to be hit by terror attacks...as if Indian is experiencing its first ever dealings with terror attacks (or London or Madrid.....when that's just not the case)

I see Madrid and think of all the times fear was used..."Are the terrorists trying to influence our elections?" because everyone knows that all terror acts around the world happen just to influence America's elections. America being the end-all and be-all at the center of everyone's universe.

I find the narrative...and mind you, the narrative I see may not be the narrative another person sees....negative. It's just not working for me.

What binds us isn't that we can all be attacked...at least I hope not. That's a world...literally, a world of fear. If fear is what holds people-kind together, then we are all fucked.

[Buzz Clik]

21. Not in the slightest.

[robcon]

22. Why would that be offensive?

Communicates clearly a pattern of killing innocents.

[taterguy]

23. A cartoonist that isn't offending at least one person isn't a very good cartoonist

[sam sarrha]

27. i got really sick of that shit for brains attitude in art school.. pathetic

[pokercat999]

24. More propaganda in the drum beat for the christian/islam/

jewish/christian/hindu wars.

[Captain Hilts]

25. No, it makes a valid point. nt

[Schema Thing]

30. Not even a little

[DS1]

32. No. Because there weren't any planes on 9/11

:crazy:

[tekisui]

42. I don't mind the plane.

The idea of the global war on terra, and that the Mumbai attacks mean India is now tied to it is what bothered me. It is another piece of the drumbeat, the idea that all terrorists are the same, and are all over the world, and it is up to us victims to fight them.

Also, the simplistic view that ignores previous attacks in India.

[zorahopkins]

34. *here Are The Bombings Of The Abortion Clinics?

*here are the bombings of the abortions clinics and the murders of physicians *ho provide *omen's health services?

And *here are the bombings of Iraq and Afghanistan?

note: In protest of the continuing occupation of OUR *hite House by the ilegal and totally corrupt Bush/Cheney regime of thugs and cronies, I REFUSE to use the letter bet*een "V" and X".

[onenote]

36. No. Why would it?

I might not agree with the cartoon, but that doesn't mean its offensive.

[tekisui]

41. I read it as a "US Welcomes India to the Waronterra".

And, the idea that all of those attacks listened were by the same group with the same objective.

[dysfunctional press]

37. probably, but i don't.

[surrealAmerican]

39. Offensive? Not particularly. It's not a good or insightful cartoon, ...

... but that doesn't make it offensive.

[Hangingon]

43. Not at all.

[timtom]

44. Unless I'm missing something

I do not.

It seems like a graphic representation of the problem. I don't see where it refers to al Qaeda OR the Bush Administration.