{"id":1478,"date":"2026-03-30T01:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:25:49","slug":"language-matters-there-are-no-wars-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"Language Matters: There Are No &#8220;Wars of Choice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2026\/03\/23\/language-matters-there-are-no-wars-of-choice\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Language Matters: There Are No &quot;Wars of Choice&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/President_Donald_J._Trump_oversees_Operation_Epic_Fury_at_Mar-a-Lago_Palm_Beach_FL_Feb._28_2026._White_House_photo_by_Daniel_Torok_55121599389-scaled.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.counterpunch.org<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Language Matters: There Are No &#8220;Wars of Choice&#8221;<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">In early reporting on the Iran War as &#8220;the ultimate war of choice,&#8221; the New York Times spoke, as usual, in the sanitizing language of political realism. This is the lingua franca of the foreign policy elite in the Atlanticist alliance, consisting of the self-anointed \u2018liberal democracies.\u2019 It is definitely a more refined and less objectionable manner of labeling an unprovoked \u2018war of aggression\u2019 than the brazen utterances of the U.S. president, Donald Trump, who had the audacity to trivialize the bloodshed and devastation traumatizing Iran\u2019s innocent population as \u2018an excursion.\u2019<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politica","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}