I'm always amazed at this, my friend's husband who is a wingnut won't enlist because he's a father. Perfectly logical since no one that's over there now has kids, or wives, or husbands, or moms, or dads....sigh.

Old folks who remember the military draft will understand that this cartoon is profound, but younger Americans just may not get it.

Maybe this is progress. We do not send EVERY young man to Vietnam anymore. Now we just send SOME young men and young women to Iraq.

So, maybe we are on course: Maybe soon, we will send NOBODY anywhere deadly.

Not particularly funny, but still correct. It WOULD be interesting to see a "Foreign Legion" of New Republicans marching off to war. That would fill my heart with gladness, because they would soon all be dead and therefore unable to cause trouble here.

I've often wondered how many Young Republican "supporters" of this war in Iraq have graduated college since June 2003. That's 4 graduating classes: '03-'04-'05 & '06 !!! If they were actually serious we'd expect to see a "surge" sign ups each summer. But I suspect they're really just a bunch of latte sucking weenies who talk a good game. All foam, no coffee.

I hope you're sitting down, Rob.

We're in complete agreement on this one. Good post, too. Thanks.

I am British and I am very pleased that someone in the USA seems to understand how pathetic the stance of a lot of your youth is. Another thing that needs to be brought up is the obsession with the number of US casualties - the unwritten assumption being that the very much greater number of Iraqis who suffer is not relevant. They are nur Untermensch after all. Saddam is put to death for killing over 150 people in retribution for an attempt on his life - your army/marines thinks nothing of wiping out a few households by plane when any firing is coming from that area. And that is happening on a daily basis.

> Shame on Dan Perkins for having nothing better to do that

> take an easy potshot at America's youth. I believe the term

> they would use for this strip would be that Dan's finally "jumped the shark."

He isn't taking a shot at all youth, prof. Just those who -- like so many of the Chickenhawks in the current administration -- are rabid for war but unwilling to do anything more than join the College Republicans.

I suspect Dan's quiet pleased with young people who oppose the current administration's policies.

And he has every right to be.

Hey, it's hard work being a member of the next Greatest Generation and doing one's bit to support President Unitard™'s Global War on a Noun on top of doing what it takes to acquire membership in one's country's social, financial, and political elites-- Mister Smarty-Pants.

Oh, and someone needs to tell "prof" that "jumped the shark" jumped the shark about two years ago. Love the sweater-vest, though!

Back in 1970, I would have quickly rendered myself invisible when I heard some idiot ask the question "what can young American adults between the ages of 18 to 22 do to support an over stretched military?" An official, declared Act of War sharply reduces one's options; an undeclared, unofficial war leaves one's options wide open, with military duty being a dreary, dirty option. In 1943, my late father, then a young, unmarried 20 year old fellow had two options: enlist in the military service of his choice or stay in his factory job and wait for the draft board to assign him to a military service. He chose to enlist in the USAAF and on VJ Day, he was a first lieutenant and a fighter pilot. In 1970, after I graduated from high school, I had three choices: enlist in the military, get a job and wait for the draft board to contact me or get a college student deferment for four years and seriously think about what I should do with my life as I pursued a college degree. I chose the student deferment option and the world gave me a gift: the Selective Service System imploded, the Vietnam War ended and I have never been compelled to do military service. I will not play the "what if" game ("what if I were 18 again in 1970, would I still shun military duty?") or the "woulda, coulda, shoulda" shuffle: I made my choices and I live by the consequences. As to that unanswered question, I do not have any profound answers.

The military has raised the enlistment age to 42. So it's not just 18 to 22 year old supporters of the war who should be packing for Iraq, it's all the people up to the age of 42 who think this war is just a delight. People in that age group would include: Jenna Bush, Barbara Bush, George P. Bush, Noelle Bush, Lauren Bush, Pierce Bush (and any number of Barb I's other grandchildren), at least three Lieberman children and/or stepchildren, and two Guiliani children. I'm sure there are some Perle, Wolfowitz and Rumsfield children and grandchildren who could be out there fighting their president's war as well. So why aren't any of the children of the architects of this war out there fighting this war?

"So why aren't any of the children of the architects of this war out there fighting this war?"

Well, I don't know if they support their parents views. If they do, and let the poor fight and die in Iraq, while they hold a "support the Troops" kegger, then they are nothing more than cowardly hypocrites.

On the other hand, if they're against the war and they keep their mouths shut for fear of losing their inheritance, they will have to live with the guilt.

What am I saying?! They're Republicans. They have no guilt.

would miss the point that the 18-22 SUPPORTERS OF THE WAR feel their own lives are a little too valuable to throw them away by signing up and putting their safety where their big fat mouths are.

Yeah, I know a lot of very smart, very caring, and very well informed young people myself.

And they oppose the war, along with a large majority of the American people.

As a matter of fact, in reading "a prof's" (thank goodness no tenure track fella, he/she.) has so obviously mistated the cartoon's intent, one worries a bit about the damage he or she is inflicting on young people, if he/she can't be bothered to grasp the thesis of this cartoon.