I'm going to make this short and sweet, regarding Mike Ramsey's Veterans Day cartoon (SN 11/11).

Those soldiers who served in the "good war" were defending our own and other countries, as well as putting a stop to genocide.

Today's soldiers are attacking a foreign country and occupying it. Then they are put in situations like Abu Ghraib that has shown to have bad consequences (i.e. the Stanford Prison Experiment).

All it does is highlight a valid and somewhat comical contrast in a time frame where the subject matter applies.

Ramsey does a wonderful job at The State News. At least his views aren't skewed by brainwashing nationalist propaganda and resultant in a zombie-like, yes-man behavior.

Anton Frattaroli
physics and political theory and constitutional democracy senior