locutius wrote on Aug 4^th, 2008 at 9:52am:


And it seems every conflict spawns euphemisms to win the propaganda war. 'Shock and awe' is not a strategy to terrorise a people (despite the language), it is merely to achieve 'rapid dominance'. Collateral damage is not about the reckless killing of civilians due to poor judgement on the part of the combatant, it is about the inevitable suffering inflicted on innocents in the execution of a soldier's lawful duty.

This wartime doublespeak has become indispensable in the effort to extract morality and injustice from an action or strategy committed during war by trying to invoke an aura of reason to the unreasonable.