"Security" Tops The Plastic Heap Of War's Euphemism Surplus

Imagine a world without such meaningless words as "closure" where cannon fodder isn't masked as "boots on the ground," and where phrases like "this will not stand" and "stay the course" are taken out back and shot. We should be so lucky. Adam's fig leaf was history's first euphemism, a fall from grace more damning of human history than Eve's apple bite. At least Eve, hotheaded liberal that she was, was seeking knowledge. Ever the wuss, Adam took the first step toward hiding it. He couldn't hack the naked truth. And then there was spin. When God asked him what he'd done, he blamed it on his girlfriend. Adam, you see, was God's gift to public relations, that fountain of euphemisms against whose currents reality never stops swimming.

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