Politics

What Did You Do in the Targeted Action, Daddy?

Paging Orwell

The president can call it what he wants. But it’s war. You know, where we kill lots of people. Maybe they deserve it. But we should say it.

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The Daily Beast/Elena Scotti

President Obama is known for having a way with words, especially when he has a script. Ironically, Wednesday night that facility with words helped him avoid telling us that we are entering into another war.

Rather, we are to suppose we are entering into, well, an “action,” as in “any time...

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