Comics and illustration portfolio of Kevin Moore
Few people are excited by the prospect of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking from the same podium that President Obama used to deliver his State of the Union address, so I predict the event scheduled for March will be canceled. It may be kiboshed before this cartoon sees the Web. If so, the portrait painted here … Read More “Netanyahu Fantasy President” »
As in “blind” and “crazy”: Instead of “the hammer,” in the words of John O. Brennan, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, America will rely on the “scalpel.” In a speech in May, Mr. Brennan, an architect of the White House strategy, used this analogy while pledging a “multigenerational” campaign against Al Qaeda and its extremist … Read More “Out of Sight, Out of Mind” »
Awright! We got Osama! Or, really, his cook. But how’s he gonna get his lamb kabobs now, huh? Anyway, the cook will get two years, wherever the military decides to finally put him. The judge, Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Nancy Paul, said an assistant defense secretary ordered two years ago that the Army and the … Read More “Well, That Was Worth It” »
Two suicide bombings in Dagestan kill twelve people. As BBCNews reports, the bombings are likely linked to the same group responsible for the Lubyanka bombings two days ago — that is, militants from the North Caucasus region that includes Ingushetia and Chechnya, where Russia, as the Soviet Union and in its post-Soviet mode has waged … Read More “No Daylight Between Them” »
Roger Cohen observes that “the current accountability void for U.S. targeted killing is unacceptable.” Where to begin? For one thing, the “accountability void” for U.S. violence in general is pretty unacceptable, too. Like, say, Gitmo. Or torture. Or illegal wars. Or the hiring of mercenaries. The mercenaries themselves. I could go on… So really, Roger … Read More “Kinder, Gentler Assassinations?” »
“So, if the President wants to crush the testicles of a terror suspect’s child, waterboard the dude, then kill everyone in his home town because they might be full of hostile insurgents, that’s cool with you?” “Sure. What the fuck.” “Is there a legal theory behind all this?” “Well…yeah. I just told you.” “…?” “What … Read More “John Yoo, Law Wizard” »