Thursday, March 24, 2011

Why are anti-government forces in Iraq and Afghanistan
called 'insurgents', while those in Libya are called 'rebels'?
Posted by Fearguth at 10:08 AM
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4 comments:

Vigilante said...

Well, whose ox....?

10:19 AM
Fearguth said...

It has been said that the first victim in a war is truth. In Libya, however, it has to be irony.

10:46 AM
R W Rawles said...

But then, when you think about it, how often does irony fail to trump truth?

11:49 AM
Fearguth said...

I believe there's a category called 'Ironic Truth' that's neither fish nor fowl, sort of a hybrid or, perhaps, a mutation caused by radioactivity.

2:29 PM

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