Posted on 11/23/2015 11:33:50 AM PST by jazusamo
It is amazing how many different ways the same thing can be said, creating totally different impressions. For example, when President Barack Obama says that defeating ISIS is going to take a long time, how is that different from saying that he is going to do very little, very slowly? It is saying the same thing in different words.
Defenders of the administration's policies may cite how many aerial sorties have been flown by American planes against ISIS. There have been thousands of these sorties, which sounds very impressive. But what is less impressive -- and more indicative -- is that, in most of those sorties, the planes have not fired a single shot or dropped a single bomb.
Why? Because the rules of engagement are so restrictive that in most circumstances there is little that the pilot is allowed to do, unless circumstances are just right, which they seldom are in any war.
Moreover, the thousands of sorties being flown are still a small fraction of the number of sorties flown in the same amount of time during the Iraq war, when American leaders were serious about getting the war won.
Politics produces lots of words that can mean very different things, if you stop and think about them. But politicians depend on the fact that many people don't bother to stop and think about them.
We often hear that various problems within the black community are "a legacy of slavery." That phrase is in widespread use among people who believe in the kinds of welfare state programs that began to dominate government policies in the 1960s.
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Sorties? More like aerial recon for the 1600 Penn Ave HQ.
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We hate all, want more stuf.
And I try so hard to not "micro-agress". Actually, I don't. I dislike or hate black assholes; white assholes; asian assholes; indigenous assholes, and punk *ss cry baby combinations. I'm a bigot and proud of it against those racist pr*cks.
Got integrity? Oops, the college/university systems have no definition of that word in their sociology classes. My bad. I'd be happy to provide a Websters Dictionary, but then they would probably parse the definition into self-aggrandizement.
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