Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 19, 2023

Enjoy yourself, we will wait here.

The rich guys in power are still at it, but the soldiers lately are fighting for their very lives.

Likely to be led by The Young Turks when that ends.

You won’t see that on Fox or MSNBC

I’ve always wondered what goes through the minds of mercenaries. Risking their lives for somebody they don’t even know.

It’s all about the money

$$

Cluster bombs, more cluster….

Remember this sentiment from the ‘60’s… “What if they gave a war and nobody came.”

I want to see some of those old rich guys pushed into the moat.

If Wiley would change the horse into an elephant and change the cross on the shield into an “R” and add a speech balloon containing the word “MAGA” placed next to the mindless army and change the spears into guns and indicate that the date is January 6, then the identity of the Old Guy would be clear.

…not all moats are bad…

After all, all we have to give is our lives, but THEY might lose some of their ill-gotten wealth!

Thank God those times are over…

Then the gates got closed behind him.

To wit.

Pretty much. I’m guessing with the current money laundering operation drying up in the Ukraine, the Biden regime must find another source. The middle east is devolving into war. I’m sure the Bidens can find new sources.

And then send the companies owned by the pack of “535” in DC to rebuild the damage.

Let’s not forget the dastardly beast…RELIGION. Killed more people than it ever saved.

Unfortunately, too true

In ancient times, soldiers were allowed to loot and rape the enemy’s women.

Phil Ochs, “l ain’t a marching any more”

https://youtu.Be/gv1KEF8Uw2k?si=rcL_bpNm8jf6wVie

“Come, you Masters of War….”

“The attack should not have happened, of course. The rice farmer sergeant had been perfectly right; the Federation could not afford to risk its own great cites to punish the villagers of Venus. He was right—from his viewpoint.

A rice farmer has one logic; the men who live by and for power have another and entirely different logic. Their lives are built on tenuous assumptions, fragile as reputation; they could not afford to ignore a challenge to their power—the Federation could not afford not to punish the insolent colonists.”

[Robert Heinlein, “Between Planets,” 1951]

Mr Biden isn’t gonna win by flying to Israel.

And why do we the people regularly give power to people who have no interest in us whatsoever?

Well, on the other side they are saying stuff like protect your families from the unjust and evil attackers from the “whatever politically correct direction goes here”.

Reminds me of the reasons we kept hearing for going into Vietnam.

Since the late 1800’s, the world has rarely been at peace for longer than a couple of years. Why should this century be any different?

What many people don’t realize today is that for most of history, all wars amounted to pretty much that, and everybody just figured that’s the way it was and nothing would change that. From Nimrod to Nebuchadnezzar, Xerxes to Alexander, Caesar to Attila (and many more in China, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere), wars for acquisition and expansion were taken as a matter of course. To the victor went the spoils, and they were happy about it and didn’t have a qualm about the defeated, downtrodden or even exterminated peoples. Even WWII was largely motivated by the German’s sense that they were owed more “lebensraum” than they were allowed after WWI. Even today… hmm, no, not going to go there..

“Now, remember THIS time, guys — kill the MEN, and ravish the WOMEN!”

As I have always said, “Politicians start wars and expect soldiers to finish them.”

Those who call the shots are not the ones being shot at.

old rich guys or screaming lunatics…all samey same

I’m starting to think they start a war when too much ammo and equipment gets past the use-by date and they have to make space for the new inventory.

Next time he’ll just hold up a symbol of a god.

The first casualty of war is TRUTH.

population control. War’s tend to keep the population manageable and, if done right, the malcontents are fighting in another country.

Reality in one panel!

Nothing ever happens to the old guys; they pass their wealth onto their kids who do exactly the same things

It’s a little more socially acceptable than Swift’s “Modest Proposal” to thin the herd.

Were’s the “mad” button?

From almost the get-go, the longest running war on planet Earth is and has been the one Wealth wages on the rest of humanity.

Oh that’s good. Politics and human history explained in one sentence.

Great style!

Time to hear from North Korea again, whenever they feel like no one is talking about them, they launch another test. Wait for it…..

war?WHOOPIE!!—The Little Spy—GULLIVER’S TRAVels—1930

If this is supposed to be quasi-feudal, then the chap on the horse is the “old rich guy” who wants to be kept in power.

Too accurate to be funny . . . .

Honesty is never the best policy in politics, religion or personal relationships.

Well, it’s usually some kind of ideology, but the other part is sadly accurate.

Yup

I vaguely remember this comic but it’s punchline was, “The moment when Switzerland became neutral.”

And,to make the Old, Rich Bostards even Richer.

War Profiteering. When the shooting starts, always ask: Cui bono?

FDW more dangerous than WMD.