“Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them.”

[agrumer]

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”, 1946:
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for

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[kip_w]

USA! USA!

"Now 13% Better Than Saddam!!"

[kent_allard_jr]

Orwell's English professor made more sense. Shorter Goldberg: "We didn't train death squads, because those death squads were fighting Leftists, and Leftists only complain about it because they're Communists." That's what passes for higher logic in today's American Right.