Weapons are humanitarian aid — A perfect example of
neo-doublespeak in the tradition of “fake news”, “perfect phone call”, “alternative facts”, and “peaceful tourist rioting with Confederate Flags”.
A most dystopian 21st century reality perhaps illustrating the idea that we really are living in the Kālī Yuga — The Dark Age.
When compared with statements like:
Rice is humanitarian aid
Wheat is humanitarian aid
Digging fresh water wells is humanitarian aid
Offering safe effective and
free vaccines is humanitarian aid
Safe and affordable housing is humanitarian aid.
it is easy to
see the dark irony of the Orwellian
neo-doublespeak statement: weapons are humanitarian aid.
How does this measure up to offering
people: food, water, shelter, political asylum, or potential citizenship.
Is it surprising that in an era where gun violence is the number one cause of
death among young
people in
America today; that, we want to export this “largess” all over the world — perhaps as a Swift-ian “modest proposal” to solving the worldwide refugee crisis.
If weapons are humanitarian aid; then WE ARE ACTUALLY AT WAR.
Which would actually be a much more honest and straightforward statement.
