Condalisa Rice
After the militant terrorist group Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and held them in Lebanon, Israel reacted by bombing Lebanon. Although this was mainly an attack on Hezbollah, inevitably Lebanon was caught in the cross fire and ended up far worse off than Hezbollah. This cartoon, drawn by Mark Knight and published in the Herald Sun on 25th August 2006 presents Knight’s personal stance towards U.S. involvement in this crisis, showing that he thinks the U.S. were too late to help the situation and perhaps didn’t even care.
Condalisa Rice, the U.S. Secretary of State has been portrayed as superwoman, arriving at the scene of Beirut after it has been destroyed. This is also a comment on the irony of the situation, as superwoman is supposed to save the day. Superwoman is supposed to be voluptuous and heroic, but Knight has portrayed her as superwoman gone wrong: skinny and ugly, almost devil like. Her question ‘Am I too late?’ shows her ignorance of and lack of concern for......
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