Breaking:Obama says he has made no final decision on Syria, but is considering 'limited narrow act'

[Berlin Expat]

35. I was simply

trying to explain that Pentagonese and diplomatese can be used in many ways to reveal and simultaneously obfuscate an issue.

For instance, instead of saying, "We're gonna take out that SOB _____________!" one could say, "We're thinking of a narrowly focused and limited duration action that will effectively and permanently neutralize the _____________ regime's ability to threaten its own citizens as well as those of neighboring countries in the immediate region."

You've basically said the same thing, but the latter is far more vague. As far as assassinations go, we've been doing that for a long, long time, though generally through proxies. We prefer not to get our hands dirty.

Ask Patrice Lumumba. Oh wait.....never mind. Then ask Salvador Allende. Oh, crap.....one of our proxies bumped him off too. I don't like it, but it's the way of the world. It always has been, and it always will be.