Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 17, 2012

Does the Taliban follow Roland’s tweets?

I’m shocked that A. he’s getting a signal and B. the outfit he’s with is cool with him tweeting from there.

Is that Embedded Tweetism?

They wouldn’t be. We weren’t allowed to even have the batteries in ours. Taliban, AQI, etc. all track them. Same reason we weren’t allowed any non-secure Comms (e.g. Motorola talkabouts)…Sucked, but that’s life.

Orion

Makes sense; send some time-on-target to the location of that high-tech source, whatever it is. BOOM!

Yes, yes; but this is a comic strip.

They like Roland. They even let him go first if he wants to tweet from in front about the mines.

Hopefully he turned off the GPS on it. And hopefully there is not a Taliban on the other end with an iPhone 4S. Taliban: “Where is Roland Hedley?”iPhone 4S: “Targeting… 665 yards SSW of you…”

He said,he heared.

Maybe GT has decided that this is when and where Roland get’s ‘written out of the script’ . . .

Last GOP timeframe for withdrawal was hell freezing over…

I suspect that Roland is JUST ABOUT to get a MAJOR reality check…

But would he know what to do with it?

Wasn’t it Chris Wallace who kept giving away his location during the first Gulf War?

I believe our wihdrawal date is the same but if we have a different president, it may be delayed by another ten years.

To answer Susan’s question … NEVER … country is being ran by the corrupt and greedy. Write Roland out of strip never, to valuble…

Should never limit what GT will do next, his fancy, for me, is a source of great pleasure.

the gulf between civilian & warrior – unbridgeable.

If Roland can take the time to type his banal tweets, wouldn’t he do a better job by actually talking into the phone?!

You mean, “Our troops” or do you mean, ‘high-paid civilian contractors whose demise we don’t have to report…‘?*and whose contracts earn Carlyle and Halliburton and what’s the other company…all that profit for misbehaving in war zones…?

I’m short on facts…long on bitterness that when we go to war we hire it done…864 companies with top secret clearances working for profit…a situation aching for corruption.

YOu KNOW the contracts for Afghan opiates have already been arranged with American mercs, and it should be hitting American cities soon…duh.

Somebody please tell me. My ruck and duffle bag are packed and ready to go home now.

Roland’s cell is the X marks the spot for anything incoming. Even without the GPS turned on. …

Yeah, I remember when Geraldo RIvera got kicked out of the war zone. I think he immediately left Iraq, which probably saved his life. Geraldo is such an idiot that he would have gotten himself and possibly others killed. Isn’t Roland based on Geraldo? Both are narcissists without a clue.

There’s never a stray bullet when you really need one. No, no, not for Roland, but for his iPhone or whatever it is.

Is this the one where Roland gets shot to death?

@SUSAN NEWMAN – having been back a while now I’m glad the rest of the ADF contingent will be home sooner rather than later. No offe nce to our US Friends, but we should NEVER have gone in the first place!

the 12th of Never

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