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While I can appreciate your point of view on this ustwo I don't like the term because it is just another blatant example of this administration sanatizing the language used to describe a war.
Sanitizing so that we don't think about the reasons why people might be fighting back. You are right when you raise the "pro-abortion" issue. This is another example of trying to control the debate by controlling the language... we could also use terms like "collateral damage", "right sizing" or "friendly fire".
One person's liberating army is another invading army. One person's freedom fighter is another's terrorist. You don't have to sympathize with any side in order to recognize that the terms used to describe certain actions and people are politically loaded and used to control the terms of the larger discourse.
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