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The Bushies' phrasing of "general time horizon" to describe when we'll get out of Iraq per the Iraqis demands, has to go down in history as a super example of political double-speak.
Horizon!?!
With every step toward the horizon, it remains the same distance away...never to be met.
E. J. Dion mentioned it yesterday on Countdown, and we can count on everyone picking up on it.
But the Bushies are counting on the fact that more than half the population is functionally illiterate, and the other half isn’t paying attention to their torturing of dictionary definitions and the possibility of beating the laws of physics.
We can expect to see parodies on John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Better yet will be the Bush antithesis to Shangri-La comparisons. His horizon if filled with nothing but war, war, and more war, while the 1937 classic movie, Lost Horizon, depicts a mythical place where there is no war and no one ages.
Really good wordsmiths with a musical ear have most likely set their derision of Bush’s ’keep us in Iraq for ever and ever policy’ to the tune of Beyond the Blue Horizon.
Blue it is indeed, especially for anyone thinking about more lives and money disappearing down a horizonless black hole.
That is, if you don’t count the ‘event horizon.’
