Michael Ramirez: Playing with Fire 02-26-26
From America's Premier Editorial Cartoonist
Looking forward to the post-Khamenei era… -m
FROM THE DESK OF MICHAEL RAMIREZ:
PLAYING WITH FIRE
Obviously, this cartoon was released on Thursday before the events that unfolded in the last 48 hours.
Iran’s biggest export has never been just oil, it is chaos. Funding terrorism, sowing fanaticism, spreading death, destruction, and mayhem around the world, killing thousands at home and abroad, this regime has been a plague on the earth.
The world will be a much better place without Khamenei.
There are good reasons to prevent Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. I have covered that topic in the past, and I will touch upon it with a cartoon in the near future… the short of it is, preventing the danger of a nuclear arms race in a region with lots of money, very little respect for human life, and a fanatical desire for martyrdom.
The proliferation of nuclear material after the fact, would pose an even larger threat to a larger number of people, because the surrogates of many of these states will not heed the MAD doctrine that has kept nuclear nations in a fragile stalemate.
You cannot deter people with the threat of destruction when they worship death.
Best,
-m
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