Sunday, July 25, 2004
And The "Award" for Most Egregious Misuse of Ironic Quotes Goes To...
...Claude Salhani, of "United" "Press" "International," for his idiotic abuse of the overused "literary" "device" in his "news" "analysis" "article:"
Analysis: Iraq's 'Changing' War
Well, I don't know what this joker's trying to get across. There is nothing about the war for Iraq that isn't just that: a war.
And for him to put the word in scare quotes, thereby implicitly stating that the war is somehow not really a war, bespeaks on his part a fundamental ignorance of warfare's history and practice.
The war doesn't look like WWI or WWII. Well, it doesn't look like a shallow, "History Channel" historian's misguided preconceptions of WWII. This desert conflict isn't a jousting match between two fundamentally honorable practicioners of maneuver warfare, like Rommel and Montgomery.
This is two dogs in a pit.
Like many areas of WWII.
This "editor" apparently doesn't have a clue about the long history of assymetrical wars. But all wars are assymetrical at some level. Indeed, the vast majority of wars throughout history have been extremely assymetrical. Like this one.
Wars come in all sizes, and in many shades of intensity. This war is a low-to-mid-intensity urban counterinsurgency. It's not the first. There's nothing new under the sun. The Romans fought an urban counterinsurgency against the Maccabees. Napoleon was fighting one in Spain. The Nazis fought two separate counterinsurgencies in Warsaw--against the Ghetto uprising in 1943, and again against the Poles in 1944. The British have been fighting one in Belfast for decades. The Americans in Hue.
There was nothing about any of these events that was not warfare. All of them, either intermittently or during the whole encounter, were desperate, brutish, nasty affairs, prosecuted on both sides with extreme prejudice.
By putting the word 'war' in scare quotes, Salhani tells us he doesn't fully grasp the nature of this war. This war is personal and vicious and is being fought to the knife, and the knife to the hilt.
Considering the nature of our enemy here, this is exactly how it should be.
Don't put 'war' in ironic quotes. Capitalize it. Enlarge the font. Put it in boldface. WAR.
Because no one ever rallied a people to victory with an uncertain trumpet.
Splash, out
Jason
Analysis: Iraq's 'Changing' War
WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) -- The "war" in Iraq is suddenly taking a very different turn, and regrettably, not one for the better. After first targeting the military, then changing tactics by kidnapping hostages and holding them in exchange for the withdrawal of Coalition troops -- and one may add with some success -- the "insurgents" are now going after the soft underbelly of Iraq, its fragile economy.
Well, I don't know what this joker's trying to get across. There is nothing about the war for Iraq that isn't just that: a war.
And for him to put the word in scare quotes, thereby implicitly stating that the war is somehow not really a war, bespeaks on his part a fundamental ignorance of warfare's history and practice.
The war doesn't look like WWI or WWII. Well, it doesn't look like a shallow, "History Channel" historian's misguided preconceptions of WWII. This desert conflict isn't a jousting match between two fundamentally honorable practicioners of maneuver warfare, like Rommel and Montgomery.
This is two dogs in a pit.
Like many areas of WWII.
This "editor" apparently doesn't have a clue about the long history of assymetrical wars. But all wars are assymetrical at some level. Indeed, the vast majority of wars throughout history have been extremely assymetrical. Like this one.
Wars come in all sizes, and in many shades of intensity. This war is a low-to-mid-intensity urban counterinsurgency. It's not the first. There's nothing new under the sun. The Romans fought an urban counterinsurgency against the Maccabees. Napoleon was fighting one in Spain. The Nazis fought two separate counterinsurgencies in Warsaw--against the Ghetto uprising in 1943, and again against the Poles in 1944. The British have been fighting one in Belfast for decades. The Americans in Hue.
There was nothing about any of these events that was not warfare. All of them, either intermittently or during the whole encounter, were desperate, brutish, nasty affairs, prosecuted on both sides with extreme prejudice.
By putting the word 'war' in scare quotes, Salhani tells us he doesn't fully grasp the nature of this war. This war is personal and vicious and is being fought to the knife, and the knife to the hilt.
Considering the nature of our enemy here, this is exactly how it should be.
Don't put 'war' in ironic quotes. Capitalize it. Enlarge the font. Put it in boldface. WAR.
Because no one ever rallied a people to victory with an uncertain trumpet.
Splash, out
Jason
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