Under my June 4th article about the Chinese buying Government Motors’ Hummer division, appeared this comment from regular reader Rursus:

My comment: “

Surely I cannot be the only person who has thought that the Chinese might want to buy the Hummer division of GM for future military purposes.”

Rursus’ reply:

“Seriously, you think that the Chinese are buying a car company so their military can learn to build over-priced gas-guzzling vehicles? There’s very little “military” about the GM Hummer.”

Here is a rebuttal in the form of an editorial cartoon from the Sunday edition of the Chicago Sun-Times:

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