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War or Occupation?
Eclectics Anonymous has quite an interesting post up about the war in Iraq.
Well, war?
If you want to extract America from the failed neo-con experiment in the Middle East, there is something very simple. You can do it today, tomorrow, until the boys and girls come home: stop calling it a war!
The ‘war’ in Iraq simply wasn’t. What started as an invasion quickly changed into a messed-up mop-up, a wrecked reconstruction and finally morphed into a moral morass best termed occupation.
Be sure to read the whole post.
To a degree I consider this to be a rhetorical trick, on the other hand there is also (quite) some truth to it.
What do you think? Should we call it ‘the war in Iraq’, the ‘occupation of Iraq’, or couldn’t you care less?
