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September 05, 2003
THE LANGUAGE VAMPIRE
"The intelligence community has imperfect visibility." That's Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld assessing U.S. confusion on the terrorist threats in Iraq, as quoted today in The New York Times. Doncha love the way he slaughters the language? He doesn't just drain it of meaning, he sucks the life out of it. And how about his judgment on security in Iraq? "It seems to me that the trajectory we're on is a good one." Must we tolerate much more of his gibberish? To call it lying would be charitable. If only Evelyn Waugh were still around.
Posted by at September 5, 2003 12:16 PM