Rhetorical Analysis

While looking for an appropriate cartoon to analyse on www.politicalcartoons.com I managed to find one that was quite interesting for me. Since I read online newspaper daily I actually wanted to find a cartoon that portrays the situation that is currently going on in Libya.

The cartoon shows a map of North Africa and Libya in its center. There are three men standing besides the map and one of them  is telling the other two "as you can see, a no-fly zone can protect all the innocent oil, er - I mean people!!". The man who is telling this is in a suit and is probably someone from the United States Cabinet and he is telling this to two army men who will probably be the ones who will execute the order to also bomb Libya. The USA influenced the United Nations and on March 17, 2011 a no-fly zone resolution was imposed on Libya. Soon after this the bombing of Libya started in which US, UK and France were involved but on March 25, the NATO took over everything. 

This cartoon shows the obvious hypocrisy of the American policy which is supposedly worried for the civilians and thats why they imposed the no-fly policy and are bombing the country. However, many around the world argue whether the USA is doing all this in order to protect the Libyan people and many actually claim that the Americans are doing this in order to get the oil. After all, the Americans already this sort of thing with Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.  

In my opinion, John Drakow hit the right place by drawing this cartoon. He wrote what majority of people all around the world is thinking and that is that the USA is using excuses to dictate its own policy and its showing itself as a peacemaker but is actually a big bully.