[Southack]

"But Al Qaeda, it became horrifyingly clear a week later in Riyadh, was not decimated"

Good grief, the poor flacks at the NY Times are so uneducated that they are confusing "decimated" with "incapacitated", as if the two words were interchangeable.

They are not.

Decimated means that you've killed one out of every 10 people.

Gee, do ya think that the other 9 might still be capable of doing some damage, Maureen?!

Oh how the mighty have fallen. Now the snobs at the NY Times are getting their word useage corrected by a country boy in rural Alabama (yes, that would be me).

[JohnHuang2]

Okay, remind me again...who's Maureen Dowd?

;)
/Sarcasm

[gridlock]

Nobody uses the word "decimated" correctly anymore. The word is self-explainatory, FCOL!

[freedumb2003]

>>Good grief, the poor flacks at the NY Times are so uneducated that they are confusing "decimated" with "incapacitated"<<

As much as I despise the Dowdy one, this was a direct quote from the President. But she left out a very important part of the sentence -- the President said, in essence, that those that are dead or captures are incapacitated. Same word, proper usage (IMHO) ofr the President, but Dowd is being investigated for the redaction.

Post #14 gives the skinny (thanks section9)