Newspeak

Spotted in The Guardian 23.03.2011




'emotional optics'. ' Background: Allied forces attack Libya.. indiscriminate bombing, random strikes kill many Libyan citizens.

'A Senior Cabinet Minister admitted that the emotional optics of cruise missiles raining down backed by coalition military briefings had unwelcome echoes of Iraq.'



In the same paper...



'mission creep'. Background: Allied forces attack Libyan citizens in the week in which a split between a military who urged caution and Cameron's pursuance of Gaddafi



'there was disquiet about 'mission creep' ..and whether the intervention would end in an unstable partition of Libya.



The head of US African Command Gen. Carter F.Ham said he was not worried about 'mission creep.'