Is whatever we’re doing in Libya a war? Everyone in the Obama administration answers that question with an emphatic no. But if it’s not a war, what the hell is it?
In a briefing on board Air Force One Wednesday, deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes took a crack at an answer. “I think what we are doing is enforcing a resolution that has a very clear set of goals, which is protecting the Libyan people, averting a humanitarian crisis, and setting up a no-fly zone,” Rhodes said. “Obviously that involves kinetic military action, particularly on the front end.”
C’mon, President Obama. Surely the best and the brightest in your administration do better than “kinetic military action.”
But just in case you can’t, please allow us. Here are President Obama’s Top 25 Euphemisms For War:
- Potential Peace Between Two Potentially Friendly Nations
- Teachable Moments
- Stimulating Production of Vital National Industries Through Organised Disposal of Acquired Defense Surplus
- Community Disorganizing
- Nation Building for al Qaeda
- Freedom Inaction
- Passive Restraint Through Blowing Shit Up
- Military Hardware Environmental Recycling Effort
- Active Ordinance Reduction
- Passive Aggressive Corrective Measures With Emphasis on Aggressive
- Yes We Can … Kill You
- Hope. Then Duck and Cover.
- Nobel Peace Prize Victory Lap
- Anti-Nonconfrontational Humilitarian Operations
- Ground-based Fireworks Display
- Foreign Explosive Technology Exchange
- Soul Liberating Aid Mission
- Military Surplus Distribution Program
- Instantaneous Population Control
- Decapitate and Trade
- Systematic Active Population Control
- Post-Natal Pro-Choice Movement
- Beating Our Plowshares Into Cruise Missiles
- Shock and Aw, Crap
- Bush’s Fault
Source: Fox News
