Truer Words

It’s pretty depress­ing how true this is:

The American pub­lic may have artic­u­lated frus­tra­tion with the course of events in Iraq, but this feel­ing is derived more from a frus­tra­tion at being defeated than from any moral out­rage over get­ting involved in a war that didn’t need to be fought in the first place. Scott Ritter, “Stop the Iran War Before it Starts,” The Nation, February 5, 2007 (web)

But then, I don’t believe in using duck­s­peak to get audi­ences to dis­en­gage their brains, either.