You know there’s a problem when comic books have a more balanced view of war and terrorism than CNN :

In 2002, Marvel responded to the horrors of 9/11 with Captain America: The New Deal, a series featuring a terrorist named Al-Tariq who?s determined to punish the U.S. for its reckless misdeeds. After taking hostages in a small town with a defense plant, the militant addresses Captain America through loudspeakers, demanding: ?Tell our children then, American ? Who sowed death in their field ? and left it for the innocent to harvest? Who took their hands, their feet?? A horrified hostage mother turns with fury on her own husband and shrills: ?This is how you feed our baby? With bombs? You make bombs??

Of course, the quote above comes from an article slamming Marvel Comics for “blaming America first” by doing things as daring as viewing the terrorists as actual human beings with motives (rather than the faceless “evildoers” of rhetorical fame), drawing parallels between the events of 9/11 and the Allies bombing of Dresden during WW2, and having a storyline that evokes the Tuskegee experiments. Perhaps the author of this article would be more pleased with “Captain America: Let’s Roll”, which would follow the jingoistic adventures of the Captain through the Middle East where he would “invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity”.