Posted on 03/25/2011 12:03:03 PM PDT by jazusamo
What if they gave a war and nobody was allowed to say it? The debate over military action in Libya has lately taken an absurd twist, driven by the Obama administration’s bizarre unwillingness to call a war a war.
Everyone knows what is going on in Libya is a war, but the administration has placed a moratorium on plain English. Hence White House press secretary Jay Carney prefers to talk about a “time-limited, scope-limited military action,” which could actually describe most wars. And at a press briefing on Wednesday when Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn Chief of Staff Rear Admiral Gerard Hueber was asked, “Do you consider yourself at war right now?” he said, expressionlessly, “we are carrying out the mission of the United Nations Security [Council] Resolution 1973 and the direction of the president in his speech.” Said one observer, “He has drunk the Kool Aid.”
The favored expressions seem to be variations on “kinetic action,” a term that has been in usage in defense parlance for over 20 years. As jargon it is not new; it was used by George W. Bush and members of his administration. But it was never before deployed to deny reality in the way the Obama administration is doing. The president has transformed “kinetic” from jargon to doublespeak, joining such classics as “man caused disaster” and “overseas contingency operation.”
It says a lot when a president has to hide behind opaque language, or to forbid people from stating the obvious. In 1994 the State Department reportedly banned the use of the word “genocide” to describe the genocide then raging in Rwanda. The thought was that if genocide was in progress the United States might be expected to do something about it, which the Clinton administration was loath to do...
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It sure does.
What it needs is a Congress to call him on it. He violated the letter, and spirit of the law. He is only the second president to do so. The first was Clinton and he knew Congress didn’t have the stones.
It isn’t a crime if the victim (Congress) doesn’t say it is.
What ridiculous double-speak! “1984” has arrived thirty-seven years late.
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I do hope he’s embracing his ‘tolerance’ stance and not identifying Military targets with a cross-hairs, or moving tanks back and forth across a map. That sends the wrong message.
If he doesn’t want to look like a hyprocrite, I think he ought to use something non-theatening in the War Room. Like baby chicks for tanks, lily-pads for aircraft carriers, butterflies for fighters, cute little frogs for submarines, mushrooms for forward Army centers.
Oh, it will look so purty ... and how about some Unicorns and rainbows?
I’m sure that Moochelle and the Girls will be so happy.
America Will Not Lead !!
“What if they gave a war and nobody was allowed to say it? The debate over military action in Libya has lately taken an absurd twist, driven by the Obama administration’s bizarre unwillingness to call a war a war.”
Nothing unique here. There exists an ongoing war against our Constitution by the Left, and nobody is willing to call that war a war.
A war against our Constitution is a war against every American wherever they are on this Earth.
Where’s the outrage?
Well said. It is outrageous.
Its a man-caused disaster.
Yep, we don’t have anything close to a president in the WH.
And now it’s pretty much confirmed the rebels are led by al Qaeda.
The rebels are being led by a man who led the fight against us in Afghanistan ...
LET THEM FIGHT IT OUT ... we take on the winner
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