A Leader’s Lexicon for the 21st Century | Dissident Voice
▻http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/01/a-leaders-lexicon-for-the-21st-century
Intended to help all 21st Century leaders (Western, of course) when making speeches or statements to the press and their gullible public. N.B.: this is not an exhaustive list, and leaders will invent their own useful words and phrases, freely copied by their fellows.
Insurgents (also known as terrorists, Mujahideen, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Islamists): bad. We don’t support them.
Rebels: good. We support them, with weapons and other equipment, training by our own forces (that are not there) because…
Boots on the ground: we are not going to send in any of our own troops (because they went in secretly last week/month/year).
Regimes, dictatorships: legitimate governments we don’t support.
Governments: regimes and dictatorships we do support.
‘We are proud of our special relationship’: we buy arms from them.
‘Partners’: we sell arms to them.
Friendly nations: and them. (...)