editorial

Joint Chiefs Protest a Cartoon

Feb 2, 2006
All six Joint Chiefs of Staff write a very rare letter to the editor of the Washington Post, protesting an editorial cartoon by Tom Toles, which they say demeans wounded American soldiers. | story (Broken by AMERICAblog)Well, despite the fact that Toles has a valid satirical point to make about the Pentagon's overextension of troops in the field, we have to wonder: With the insurgency gaining strength every day, and reconstruction efforts crippled by high-level incompetency, this cartoon is what's upsetting our nation's military leadership?