That is a bit bigoted and racist for my liking.

The globe in the beginning looks familiar. Was that an edited version of the "globe" at the end of "Hopping Mad"?

Too bad the big, bad U.S. military wasn't unleashed on Pakistan and Afghanistan (before the Iraq Invasion) and policed that part of the world that actually needed policing and liberation from true religious fanatics. Saddam Hussein may have been a harsh dictator, but at least things weren't as bad as they became after he was removed. A lot of people are no longer here on Earth after the USA's temper tantrum was unleashed on poor Iraq that was treated as Uncle Sam's whipping boy.

If those cowards and world-class bunglers of the George W. Bush administration and their co-conspirators in Congress had really wanted to do good in the world, rather than invading a weakened Iraq for sheer profits' sake, then the region may have truly become better than it was (or still is) under Taliban, Pashtun and Pakistani rule.

The USA could have even de-nuked Pakistan once it entered the country and defeated it militarily and do to it, what it did to Iraq (which didn't even have any weapons of mass destruction and they all knew it and they still went ahead with an unjustified invasion anyway!) The people could have been released from the tyranny of the religious fanatics that are practicing laws from the 13th century.

Why is the world this blasé about dealing harshly with such inflexible, backward, religious fanatics hellbent on waging war on modernity and all it entails? The world, as a whole, should just go into this region and clean house and liberate the people that are living under this brutal tyranny. Simply kill all these religious fanatics that abuse women and that impose such a brutal way of life on people, forcing them to not be able to join the modern world.

These videos I saw on YouTube really changed my mind about the Taliban and religious fanatics in general that do such brutal, despicable things to everyday people -- many who aren't even capable of fighting back, i.e. women, children, old people, etc.

Taliban women abuse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24LNQfIxbXI

Abuse of women in the Taliban
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emMrn9ja5iU

Great voice over work. Who is it?

I am inspired, .Keep up the great work.
Think Free
Chaos

This is a good cartoon, Mark. The Taliban are a genuine concern that America must address. You know this is real problem when a liberal says so!

So this is what passes for 'safe' so-called 'humor' in Bankrupt ImperioCapitalist Amerikkka under Wall Street's Pentagonized Half-White House-N-gger??

You'd have to be rather insane to glean any wit or fun from this propaganda brainf--k, which simply commands the Homeland subjects to ignore to the orchestrated robbery being perpetrated upon them, while pointing to the consolation of some convenient foreign scapegoat you can, under military license, rape, torture, rob and bomb to dust.

"So join the Army today, and 'work off' some of that racist tension in a risk-free modern 'Injun-hunt' via GameBoy console from the comfort of your couch."

That's the message of twisted bastard Fiore!

Therefore, I sincerely wish a terminal bowel cancer on his sick ass.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -- Mencken

How about a cartoon on Christian fundies, or more specifically, their Taliban-like counterparts, the reconstructionists? I'm not religious, and personally, view all religions as BS, and find it amusing to see the hippocracy(sp?) displayed by the "spare the rod, spoil the child"-bunch right here in the good ol' USA, as they try
and make Those Other religious extremists look bad for doing pretty much what they themselves do. Until Organized Superstition finally goes the way of the dinosaur here on earth, we will continue to have wars, killings and strife exceeding that of purely political conflicts.

This is more than excellent - knowledge + humor for the average Joe.

www.bengalunderattack.blogspot.com

Good stuff Mark.
U.S. - using the most technologically advanced 'drones' fighting the...
Taliban - using the most basic (horses and ak-47) technology trying to get there hands on...
nukes - the most destructive weapon the earth has seen.
extreme indeed.

- StupidPeopleTrick

I just posted the first episode of "News-in-a-Nutshell." (Now, with moderate cartoon gore.) Thanks to John Taylor for the excellent voice work, as usual!

Let me know what you think.

-Mark