Ted Rall doesn't pull any punches.

that cartoon is horrible. people don't join our military in order to kill innocent people for religious reasons.

Red -

No, of course not. But that's not what Ted Rall is saying. Take another read of it, and look for a whole different theme. I don't always get a cartoon, particularly of an editorial flavor, on the first pass either.

Ouch!

s10wdjin -

Thanks for your polite answer to my hot-headed comment.

But after reading it again, I still don't see an alternative interpretation. Can you give me a hint?

Red, I read Ted Rall as itemizing the gung-ho reasons for buying into the Iraq war and for accepting the deaths which result. We don't do suicide bombing, though many we're fighting do, and their reasons for doing it are pretty much the same as our gung-ho reasons for going as far as we go.

Nah, I didn't think you were hot-headed in your comment.