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Indeed, as Pappe said,
"This is a basic problem of morality
and ethics now."
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Euphemisms for Nuclear War:
"lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons," making the use of more powerful nuclear weapons more likely and setting off a new arms race. The use of the word "tactical" operates to lessen their importance, to distract from the fact that their very use would constitute a nuclear war.The euphemisms used include "tactical," "small," "mini-," and "low yield" nuclear weapons. "Tactical" contrasts with "strategic"; it refers to tactics, relatively low-level choices made in carrying out an overall strategy, but which don't affect the grand strategy. But the use of any nuclear weapons at all would be anything but "tactical." It would be a major world event - in Vladimir Putin's words,
-- From the
article "The Words
None Dare Say: Nuclear War"
at
www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/the-words-none-dare-say-_b_42260.html
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We have had our last
chance.
If we do not now devise some greater and more equitable system,
Armageddon will be at our door. The problem is basically theological
and involves a spiritual renewal and improvement of human character.
It must be of the spirit, if we are to save the flesh."
--Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who understood
the ultimate
solution to wars and the defeat of evil