This impassioned anti-war cartoon book by one of America’s foremost illustrators answers againin visual images and for different countriesthe question posed by Norman Mailer 42 years ago in
Why Are We in Vietnam?
In other words, why are we half way around the world killing people who have done us no harm?
Marc Simont’s cartoons are satiric dispatches from the front, beginning with Vietnam and ending in Iraq and Afghanistan (so far). His drawings capture the essence of a brooding Nixon, a
smiling Reagan, a bland Bush One and a dumbfounded Bush Two as they prosecute their wars. Simont’s fierce portrayals of representatives of the Military-Industrial Complexfrom Kissinger to
Rumsfeld to Negroponte and Cheneyare intimately linked to his passionate sympathy and indignation on behalf of all civilians, soldiers and prisoners who have suffered. Simont is continually
struck by the majesty of the planet as it floats in space like a jewel. Will it survive?