[pfflier]

The worst part is the Pentagon's Orwellian effort to avoid calling the weapons by their right names.

What is so "Orwellian" about that? Napalm, technically, is comprised of naptha and palm oil. It hasn't been used since the Korean war. Other concoctions burn better and are more stable and efficient. Nuclear weapons burn, fuel air bombs burn. Conventional munitions develop their effects through large exothermic reactions.

Is the Pentagon "Orwellian" for not pointing that out? Or is the press baiting the whimpy handwringers craving for another Vietnam?

[SpinnerWebb]

"You can call it something other than napalm, but it's napalm," said John Pike, defense analyst with GlobalSecurity.org, a nonpartisan research group in Alexandria, Va.

It depends upon what your definition of "is" is ..... *endscarc*

[kaboom]

The worst part is the Pentagon's Orwellian effort to avoid calling the weapons by their right names.

It can't be any worse than the media and RATs attempt to misidentify Iraq as Vietnam.