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Tortured Language for Evading Truths about Islamic Jihad
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Tortured Language for Evading Truths about Islamic Jihad

Unmasking Euphemisms: The Cost of Ambiguity in Addressing Radical Threats

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Craig Biddle
Dec 16, 2015
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Jonathan Schanzer’s New York Post article “Here’s What All Those Terror Terms Actually Mean” is good to see, not only for its general content but also for its underlying premise.

Schanzer focuses on several conceptual contortions widely used today for the purpose of evading truths about our enemies and what we must do to destroy them. Although I take iss…

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