Some modern folk will object to any form of popular entertainment supporting the US government in any kind of military effort, but beyond that cheap faux-morality, even a racially insensitive right wing nut such as me can be taken aback by the crude and casual racism in some of this. For example, it set me back a little to see this creation from the pen of Dr Seuss about the "honorable fifth column" stocking up while "waiting for a signal from home":

For starters, this business about Japanese-Americans being a fifth column just wasn't true. Historically, there were very few of them anything other than loyal to America. FDR's mass internment of loyal Americans was a terrible and utterly unnecessary blot on the national record.

Looking at these depictions of "Japs" in the Popeye cartoons and especially in the Dr Seuss images gives me pause over my own attitudes. Frankly, I have little patience at this point for any kind of Muslim nonsense - but how will the things I'm writing and saying today look 50 years from now?

Then again, of course circumstances are different now from WWII. The Japanese "fifth column" was non-existent. But now, we actually DO have sleeper cells, including native born Americans of Muslim descent being recruited to kill US. How do we deal honestly with such things without becoming bigots?

All I can do is to try to be a fair referee and honestly call 'em as I see 'em, in the most straightforward manner - just like Popeye.