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Characterizing the 2011 Libyan project with weirdly passive syntax ("It is our military that is being volunteered by others to carry out missions"), he explained his sashay into Libya's civil war as pre-emptive: "I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action."
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Words, however, are so marvelously malleable in the Obama administration, the Oxford English Dictionary's definition of "coup" ("a change in the government carried out violently or illegally") somehow does not denote what happened in Egypt.
Last week, an Obama spokesman said: "We have made the determination that making a decision about whether or not a coup occurred is not in the best interests of the United States." So convinced is this White House of its own majesty and of the consequent magic of its words, it considers this a clever way of saying the law is a nuisance.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will082913.php3#.UiF_PN00jDo
Jewish World Review
Obama's careless remarks may lead the U.S. to war
By George Will
August 29, 2013
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