Vocabulary Lessons 0
TomDispatch looks at how words about war have been redefined.
Here’s a sampling. Follow the link for all nine of them and the reasoning underlying his definitions:
- Enemy: Any super-evil pipsqueak on whose back you can raise at least $1.2 trillion a year for the National Security Complex.
- Covert War: It used to mean secret war, a war “in the shadows” and so beyond the public’s gaze. Now, it means a conflict in the full glare of publicity that everybody knows about, but no one can do anything about. Think: in the news, but off the books.
- Withdrawal: We’re going, we’re going… Just not quite yet and stop pushing!
Via Asia Times.
