Last week I noted how presidents no longer like to call a war a war. To refresh your memory, I noted that Korea was a "police action" and Viet Nam was an "advisors" operation. Then I went on about how Obama is reluctant to call wars what they are ... "overseas contingency operation" for example, instead of a war in Afganistan.
Well, they've gotten really creative with the Libyan war. They're calling it a "kinetic military action". Huh? I suppose they've coined that because they want us to believe we're not using 'troops' ... just missiles and bombs. That's a ridiculous thing to call it even if it were true we weren't using 'troops'. We have special ops forces IN Libya. Military personnel have been flying dangerous missions over Libya. A "military action", eh? And not just any old run-of-the-mill military action, a "kinetic" one! Wow! How smart-sounding! We're not going to war there, we're just bombing the crap out of them.
These word games are ridiculous.
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