[Cicero]

I packed the preceding paragraph with enough verbal knots to secure the QE2, so I'll untangle them one by one.

This entire article is an exercise in boredom, obfuscation, and the usual NYT policy of moral equivalency.

MEGO. My eyes glaze over when I read this.

The writer declares that he wants "a path out of this thicket," but this is clearly untrue. He wants to pretend he is answering the complaints without truly answering them.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[Harpo Speaks]

It took Okrent 20 paragraphs to get to the conclusion we all knew when he started: nothing will change.

[dervish]

"I wanted to avoid the political meaning that comes with 'terrorism,' but I couldn't pretend that the word had no usage at all in plain English." Bennet came to believe that "not to use the term began to seem like a political act in itself."

I agree. ‘snip’

Beheading construction workers in Iraq and bombing a market in Jerusalem are terrorism pure and simple.

It’s a start. Now let’s see them implement it.

[TASMANIANRED]

NYT justifies double speak.