Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 23, 2001
Transcript:
B.D.: Look, Rev, even if the science is slow in coming, we have to do something. The old cold war deterrence doesn't cut it anymore! There's a whole new generation of madmen who will pay any price to destroy us! Rev. Sloan: So Stalin wasn't mad enough for you, B.D.? Or Mao? They killed millions of their own people! B.D.: Yes, but not themselves! Boopsie: Right. Today's madmen are edgier, more depressed.
And this ran before 9/11.