One need only watch the latest news with a discerning eye and ear to understand that the Israeli military is now acting as a proxy for the United States — or vice-versa — obviously a chicken and egg situation, depending on whose neocon vision one has in mind.

Never one to mince words, but perhaps one to occasionally understate his meaning, George Orwell previously reminded us:

One need not swallow such absurdities as this, but one ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Alas, not much has changed since Orwell penned those words. As evidence, I offer up or portion of Newt Gingrich’s WWIII essay that appeared yesterday in the Guardian UK.

The ceasefire called for by the recent and ill-advised G-8 communiqué would do the opposite. It would simply allow the terrorists to organize and prepare for the next round of killing and bloodshed.

The nature of the threat — with Iran at the epicenter — is at its core ideological. The ideological wing of Islam that is irreconcilable to modern civilization. And while not operationally connected, the events of just the last seven weeks throughout the world share the common strategic goal of defeating the West and its values. It could be accurately described as a third world war.

Posted by Buck Batard at July 21, 2006 06:57 AM

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