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Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 25, 1981
March 24, 1981
March 26, 1981
Transcript:
Roland: Whether the U.S. meant to win the Vietnam War or not, today there is a growing pressure to find a war we can win. U.S. strategist Abe Levin explains how El Salvador was selected. Man: It wasn't easy. We'd been looking for a place to draw the line for weeks, but there just weren't any civil wars on the front page. Finally, some guy in research hit on El Salvador. It was perfect. Small, close to home, and the right side was already winning. We hit it hard. Within days, we'd turned El Salvador into a metaphor for the geopolitical struggle between the superpowers! Roland: And the Russians agreed with your choice? Man: Well, no, they wanted some Persian Gulf state, but we put our foot down.
