What strikes one first about cartoon is the relative difference in size and fuse length of the two ``bombs.'' One also notices a difference in the person depicted as the bombs' ``heads.'' The likeness of George W. Bush acts as a means of further distinguishing these two signs; he lights the fuse of a distant bomb turning his back on the one. Thus he creates a both in contrast between them, terms of a spatial relationship and a mode of interaction. Together these contrasts form part of the meaning of this cartoon, is a contrast between between contrast a nations,policies towards nations, and a contradictory matching between nations and policies. But how exactly are these images and signs related to nations and policies To answer this question, we turn to a structural study of the meaning of complex metaphorical signs known as blending.
The most basic intuition for identifying a blend in this cartoon is to notice that while the images of the bombs play a metaphorical in describing geopolitical relationships between the United States,North Korea, and Iraq,what is seen cannot be a simple geopolitical a from projection space to a metaphorical ``bombs with fuses'' space. This is because elements of the source space are visible in what is supposed to be target space. The natural explanation for the coexistence of elements from both the source and target spaces is that a new blended space has been created.
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