Political Cartoon Essay

Political Cartoon Essay

Leonel Anciso Jr.

Govt. 2302-V03

Dr. Kevin Holton

October 19, 2012

The political cartoon is in reference to Iran’s nuclear program, which has been a major issue and is one of the world’s most volatile regions. According to Iran’s leadership, its goal in developing a nuclear program is to generate electricity in order to provide fuel for medical reactors. Iran and the United States have been at odds over its nuclear program for years and this issue has picked up since November 2011. Its been known, that Americans are concerned because Israel has been pushing the U.S. to take military action to damage Iran’s program before it reaches the point where they will have capability to make an atomic bomb. For the most part, going to war with Iran will be more expensive than us going to with Iraq and Afghanistan. Personally, I would not want our military to go to war again after we have been in war with Iraq for a very long time. Therefore, when analyzing the picture it looks like mothers of current soldiers and veterans would be against going to war with Iran, what outcomes may occur if we do go to war, and want can our government do differently with this situation.

For one thing, the cartoon sketch is describing international relations policy with Iran. According to a report from February 2010, the United Nations states that Iran’s military was or is trying to develop a nuclear warhead and some believed that this activity has been going on before 2004. For instance, in August 2005, Mr. Ahmadinejad took over as president of Iran and had announced that they would resume enrichment work and this lead to the three European nations to break off their long-running talks of peace in the region. In the picture it looks like Uncle Sam wants to go to war since it does not want to hear what Americans think about the situation, since we have many soldiers come back with PTSD (Post Traumatic Syndrome). For example, many soldiers...