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Originally Posted by Jimellow
How can you be sure you are interpreting the cartoon correctly? Is there only one interpretation that is "right"?
To me, the cartoon is showing a doctor, in this case Rumsfield, making glib of the soldiers injuries and sacrifices.
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Sorry, but you're wrong. There's no wiggle room here, you're just simply wrong. Look at the chart. It doesn't say "Soldier" it says "US Army." Editorial cartoon people are usually used to represent something or some concept. The cartoonist will label it so you know what it represents. The next time you see a cartoon with an elephant squashing a donkey, you would do well not to immediately start contacting animal rights groups to complain.
The picture of the wounded soldier is labelled US Army because it is representative of the US Army. Not a soldier. It is saying the US Army is horribly wounded and not in good enough condition for the task it has been set with.