A War by Any Other Name Is Still a War

A War by Any Other Name Is Still a War
Posted by Laurence Vance on March 25, 2011 10:07 AM

It isn't a war against Libya, it is just "a time-limited, scope-limited military action" or a "kinetic military action." The government calls its non-wars wars, like the war on cancer, the war on drugs, the war on poverty, the war on tobacco, the war on terror, and the war on childhood obesity, but refuses to call an act of war by the United States a war.


War on Words
Posted by Butler Shaffer on March 25, 2011 12:56 PM

Laurence: Don't forget that the bombing and killing of Koreans was done in the name of a "police action"; American troops killed people in Kosovo ­ and other places -- as "peacekeepers"; while other military action -- e.g., current Libya -- in the name of "humanitarianism." The Strategic Air Command -- which has unloaded millions of tons of bombs on other countries -- tells the world that "Peace Is Our Profession." Such corruption of language is engaged in to comfort Boobus -- the collective dullard who actually loves war; relishes war -- provided it's called something else. In the lyrics of Tom Lehrer, such people "would rather kill them [foreigners] off by peaceful means."