Cartoonists With No Imagination...and little common sense

'Wanna see a really stupid cartoon? (click on "Heng - Singapore")

I was infuriated when I saw this cartoon in Japan's Daily Yomiuri, English edition.

Hu Jintao is the virtual dictator (along with a massive and stale bureaucracy) of an authoritarian police state that -- though in transition -- regularly crushes dissent, tortures and kills opposition, and censors the very lives of it's citizens. In the cartoon noted, he's depicted admiring his "world image" while the evil symbol of America see's (for the billionth time) an image of what some renegade soldiers did to some Islamo-terrorist.

The media's (and random socialists everywhere) love of this image is just plain stupid. Although a serious PR embarrassment, the pranks and degradations at Abu Ghraib are a distant and insignificant failing in the context of a brutal war with fascist thugs.

It's bad enough that so many in the media can't get enough of this image but now one cartoonist has the balls to juxtapose it with a neat and placid image of China -- a ruthless dictatorship that killed millions of its own citizens and continues to oppress them under its one-party rule.

Pathetic nonsense.