This is turning into something out of Dr. Strangelove.
Male bovine solid waste.
What happened to “Oversees Contingency Operation”?
DUH
people are dying and things are getting broke...
Nuanced!
I guess the term “Police Action” has fallen off the Euphemism treadmill.
Just ask Mo if it is a war. HE will know for sure!
“O” can now be christened: ‘Mr. Cluster F^%$ in Chief’. It’s a tough act to follow, but I wonder what “O” is going to trash next.
Liberal Media Ignorance IS Strength, War Is Peace Prize.
We have always been at War with North Africa....
To a lawyer something is what to label it not what it is. The convoluted reasoning they, as offices of the court, employ to justify their active support in violating both the spirit and letter of the law is sickening.
To me, a war is any time that an American solider, sailor, airman, or marine is ordered into a foreign nation alive and returns in a body bag dead. Using any other term, including “Police Action”, “Peace Keeping”, and “Nation Building” (to quote a few historic examples), is a lie designed to enhance the political survivability of a politician.
When you go to DC, please visit “THE” Wall and the Korean War Memorial and tell me that those men and women didn't die in a war!
I didn’t always agree with the late, George Carlin, but this is one of my favorite rants of his about how we use euphemisms, and this stupid term made me think of this:
“I don’t like words that hide the truth. I don’t like words that conceal reality. I don’t like euphemisms, or euphemistic language.
And American English is loaded with euphemisms. ‘Cause Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality. Americans have trouble facing the truth, so they invent the kind of a soft language to protect themselves from it, and it gets worse with every generation.
For some reason, it just keeps getting worse. I’ll give you an example of that. There’s a condition in combat. Most people know about it. It’s when a fighting person’s nervous system has been stressed to its absolute peak and maximum. Can’t take anymore input. The nervous system has either (click) snapped or is about to snap.
In the first world war, that condition was called Shell Shock. Simple. Honest, direct language. Two syllables, Shell Shock. Almost sounds like the guns themselves. That was seventy years ago.
Then a whole generation went by and the second world war came along and very same combat condition was called Battle Fatigue. Four syllables now. Takes a little longer to say. Doesn’t seem to hurt as much. Fatigue is a nicer word than shock. Shell Shock! Battle Fatigue.
Then we had the war in Korea, 1950. Madison avenue was riding high by that time, and the very same combat condition was called Operational Exhaustion. Hey, we’re up to eight syllables now! And the humanity has been squeezed completely out of the phrase. It’s totally sterile now. Operational exhaustion. Sounds like something that might happen to your car.
Then of course, came the war in Viet Nam, which has only been over for about sixteen or seventeen years, and thanks to the lies and deceits surrounding that war, I guess it’s no surprise that the very same condition was called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Still eight syllables, but we’ve added a hyphen! And the pain is completely buried under jargon. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I’ll bet you if we’d’ve still been calling it Shell Shock, some of those Viet Nam veterans might have gotten the attention they needed at the time. I’ll betcha. I’ll betcha.”
George Orwell was right.. this is nothing more than manipulation of language by Marxists.
If it quacks like a duck,
walks like a duck,
.... you get the rest.
Maybe they should ask the TC whose burned corpse was lying next to his T-72.
for just 9.99.99 you can get your official let me lie to you war calender complete with dead folks.Pic and the 12th Iman, and an image of Khomeini..
So WTF LOL KMA
Fixed it.
Fixed it.
I was amused by the WH spokesman yesterday (forgot his name): he said, over and over, talking points: “We are using our unique assets” (to prep the area for others to enforce the no-fly-zone). . .
I guess the United States does indeed have “unique assets. . .”