WorkingForChange-War in October?
War in October?
Bush positions strike group in Gulf prior to midterm electionsIt’s an empirical fact that in modern America, two rhetorical devices must be used repeatedly by our president before we can invade another country. First, that country must be conflated with its leader, so that we are bombing one person, not, say, 70 million people. Second, that leader must be demonized. He must be Worse-Than-Hitler, an evildoer, a charter member of the Axis of Evil, a “devil,” if you will. That stench in the streets of whichever country we’ve targeted isn’t the smell of napalm in the morning. It’s sulfur.