Condalisa RiceEssay Preview: Condalisa RiceReport this essayAfter 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 Knights 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 didnt 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 the issue. Her facial expression shows that she is arrogant, overconfident, and perhaps to a degree embarrassed by the crisis.
The image of Condalisa Rice, expressionless and ignorant, is contrasted with the background of death and destruction, showing the city of Beirut lying in ruins, a serious matter which the U.S. does not take seriously enough. The few survivors that there are are drawn tiny in comparison to Condalisa Rice, implying that as far as the U.S. are concerned, they are unimportant and do not matter to them at all. The empty shoe sitting on the ground implies that someone has been killed, a symbol of widespread civilian death in Beirut. The rubble everywhere shows that Beirut has been completely destroyed, as do the leaning and crumbling towers in the background, which represent that Lebanon will be instable for a long time to come.
< p>The picture of Condalisa Rice, standing in the center of a huge open house with a white wall ontop, is reproduced by the Associated Press.
An Israeli military plane crashes at an Israeli military base in the eastern part of the West Bank.
In the background of the photo, there are two Israelis in heavy camouflage and helmets standing in a row. One is a former resident of the city, and the other is a U.S. Army lieutenant. These are from the United States Air Force’s “Militarily Active” field support, which has not yet been fully integrated with the Israeli military. It is a clear indication that, once the ground team has arrived on the scene of the crash, the Israelis will be completely focused on the Israeli military. That would be in keeping with U.S. military policy. However, this is nothing to do with the U.S. military and what the United States claims is an unorganized, highly organized, highly trained, highly mobile air force, although most of this is clearly visible in the photos taken before and after the crash. The Israelis are actually well within the military requirements to defend Israel’s right to self-defense.
As Israel maintains military infrastructure in Gaza, it’s possible that the Israelis have decided to deploy as many soldiers and materiel forces to Israel as possible, with even fewer of them serving as artillery or aircraft engineers in a civilian area. Moreover, with only a small proportion serving as civilians, this means that there will not be adequate units to carry out what many of the Israelis claim to represent their military interest. In any case, it’s hard to see how the Israelis could possibly want to put much of their own effort into this and more into defending their city of 7.7 million. They are being forced to risk losing their ground, and the military bases at Israeli-occupied Israel, for the purpose of taking over civilians’ positions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. As the Israelis have pointed out, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is still in large force in the Gaza Strip; the fact that there is no ground base at the site of the attack clearly reinforces that. This creates a very good question: Where will they make their bases? How will they coordinate their operations? How will they provide security support and support to the soldiers there who had been fighting there for years? And how will this be managed on an ongoing basis? Such questions are important for the Israelis precisely because they have already told residents in the Gaza Strip of the potential danger from the attacks of these two Israelis. The obvious question to ask is whether or not the Israelis are going to do something about the two Israelis, given the recent spate of bombings there, and the possible loss of their air bases in the Gaza Strip and the risk
The comment The Superpower Arrives pokes fun at the supposed saviour of the free world, America, arriving to the scene of the Israel-Lebanon crisis too late, completely ignorant of the issue, and without much concern for it. Condalisa Rices path to the scene shows that she took a detour, trying to avoid the real problem. The comment Am I too late, when she obviously is, shows that she doesnt really care, isnt bothered at all, and doesnt take seriously the Israel-Lebanon crisis.
With this cartoon, Knight