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Orwell explained this well. Some things can be defended, he said, only by arguments that are too brutal for most people to face. So instead we have abstract and overblown euphemisms. LIke “ethnosectarian conflict” for civil war.
Re-reading Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” would be good for most listeners to this testimony.
Memo to Petraeus & Crocker: More Laughs, Please - Dick Cavett - Opinion - New York Times Blog
No fucking shit. I am sick of this fuck fuck blight on our country. It’s a fucking disgrace. Generals getting up there and defending this shamble of a war with stupid techno-speak while as in the picture, below, dozens of innocent Iraqis die.
