I'm sick of hearing politicians, and reading editorials, decrying the spending of American "blood and treasure" in Iraq. Oh yes, it's a very poetic phrase. Google "'blood and treasure' + Iraq" and you'll get a quarter million hits. Everyone just loves that phrase.
It plays into the unreality of a war orchestrated by people who don't live in the real world I inhabit, funded by a Congress that, ditto.
Call it what it is --
LIVES: Lives lost, lives interrupted, lives forever altered.
MONEY: My money, your money. I don't have any "treasure." I have money. And less of it.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Don't call it that!
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A great reminder of the danger of using euphemisms! Great post.
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