Luckovich Replies
Charles Johnson
Fri Jun 23, 2006 at 3:35 pm PDT • Views: 503
Atlanta Journal-Constitution cartoonist Mike Luckovich responds to the revulsion most viewers expressed for his latest anti-military work: mike’s take on the torture cartoon.
His response has the same bumper-sticker moral equivalence as his cartoon.
if we want to succeed in iraq, we have to remember that our most powerful weapon, greater than any bomb we could drop, is our moral authority. with the Bush administration ignoring the geneva conventions and deciding that in some instances, torture is acceptable, abu ghraib and gitmo resulted. we have dealt a severe blow to our efforts to win the hearts and minds of iraqis and of those in the greater mideast. this is in part why the insurgency has grown so strong and made it much harder to positively transform the middle east.
Frank says: