And: The Pentagon crosses the lexicon
The Pentagon crosses the lexicon
As the horizon in Iraq recedes, the U.S. military’s language adapts
ANALYSIS
By Michael Moran
MSNBC
Oct. 31 — They are disappearing, one by one, slain on the battlefields of Iraq, the victims of the mismatch of political desire and harsh reality. I am not referring here to American soldiers falling regularly in the line of duty, either; if we learned anything from Vietnam, let it please be that soldiers sent to fight and die should not “disappear†from our consciousness. But certain words and phrases — descriptive nouns like “bomb†and “ambush,†along with less surprising terms like “WMD†— are missing in action, at least from the Pentagon’s briefings.
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