e to face...Thus political language has to consist of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification...People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die...: this is called elimination of unreliable elements.
In short, we may desire peace and expect our politicians and military personne
...