See, this is the problem with meddling with language. With too big words, too casually tossed about.

If you call a 'coordinated and intense effort' a 'War' on Drugs, then inevitably it will become thought of in terms of war. Inevitably people will come to understand the project in martial terms. So when it isn't being 'won', the question is perfectly logical and legitimate to ask why the marines aren't send in to shoot drug using college kids.

After all, it is a war, right?


Vuk is right. Vuk is perfectly logical. It is the language of Washington that is wrong. Its projects to steer reality through langauge and terminology are mistaken, are having a debilitating effect on public discourse.


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Hey guys, I have this idea. So people don't want to be killed right? Well if we just made the punishment for every crime the death penalty, no one would do anything bad right. So we just need to execute everyone for any wrong doing and we won't have any crime anymore.
Summat like this, yes.