A true a terrifying piece of insight has been posted by George Lakoff, on Huffington Post today. Lakoff lays out the methods of obfuscation and redirection Bushco is using to edge us into the taboo subject of Nuclear War.
A familiar means of denying a reality is to refuse to use the words that describe that reality. A common form of propaganda is to keep reality from being described.
In such circumstances, silence and euphemism are forms of complicity both in propaganda and in the denial of reality. And the media, as well as the major presidential candidates, are now complicit.
Lakoff then goes on to show examples of our "new" candidates using (or falling into) the gamesmanship that keeps us silently knowing: that "everybody knows" - "nobody knows nothing" - the State of Denial that is bringing our nation to its knees.
But, nobody's talking - even the ones you count on for the truth:
"The elimination of Natanz would be a major setback for Iran's nuclear ambitions, but the conventional weapons in the American arsenal could not insure the destruction of facilities under seventy-five feet of earth and rock, especially if they are reinforced with concrete."
--Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, April 17, 2006
"The second concern is that if an underground laboratory is deeply buried, that can also confound conventional weapons. But the depth of the Natanz facility - reports place the ceiling roughly 30 feet underground - is not prohibitive. The American GBU-28 weapon - the so-called bunker buster - can pierce about 23 feet of concrete and 100 feet of soil. Unless the cover over the Natanz lab is almost entirely rock, bunker busters should be able to reach it. That said, some chance remains that a single strike would fail."
--Michael Levi, New York Times, April 18, 2006
{I probably have that last one archived somewhere...}
Apparently, every candidate has picked up the denial mantle - the cloak of invisibility false leaders wear to hide their lack of real ideas or moral convictions: The Euphemism that Lakoff points to is,
"All options are on the table."
Whether its Hillary or Obama, Edwards, Bush, Cheney, Rice, - It does not matter which candidate or lackey you listen to! They all say the same thing:
"All options are on the table."
Lakoff points to the real meanings behind The Euphemism: Nuclear War.
The time has come to stop the attempt to make a nuclear war against Iran palatable to the American public.
By reframing, distraction, obfuscation - or any other method of reality avoidance! The reality is that we are talking about Bushco choosing Nuclear War. A first strike removing all the restraint of every other holder...
Read Lakoff.
And, remember: Most of the "collateral damage" will be civilians...
Hey! That's ME!