Attribution: Trump Finds New Best Friends by Dave Whamond, politicalcartoons.com

[Dave Whamonds work has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, Readers Digest and many more. He has won 7 Silver Reubens from the National Cartoonists Society and several book awards. Dave has written and/or illustrated over 50 books and his syndicated comic, “Reality Check”, has appeared in newspapers since 1995.]

When foreign policy turns to decapitation strikes, rogue regimes call family targets fair game.

Tehran broadcasting animated hit pieces and bounties against an American president’s child is grotesque theater, but it exposes the inevitable cost of abandoning foundational norms.

For decades, American foreign policy strictly prohibited the targeted assassination of foreign leaders. The doctrine was not born out of sympathy for autocrats; it was anchored in cold, self-preserving pragmatism. Once a state legitimizes decapitation strikes as standard statecraft, the unwritten firewall collapses.

Opening Pandora’s box always looks decisive in the war room until the blowback begins.

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Attribution: MISS LIBERTY by Plassmann

Edward Elgar is an English composer of the late 19th and early 20th century. Best known with most people for his composition Pomp and Circumstance March, the middle section is the processional music for many high school and college graduations.

From Wikipedia:

Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War, when his music had already become out of fashion with the concert-going public. In contrast with Elgar’s earlier Violin Concerto, which is lyrical and passionate, the Cello Concerto is for the most part contemplative and elegiac.

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