The crime is the first ‘tap,’ not the second
In the craft of propaganda, one of the slyest techniques is euphemism — soft words for hammer blows. “Enhanced interrogation” for torture. “Downsized” for vaporized careers. “Alternative facts” for one who lies with each breath. Out in the Caribbean among the shards of an outboard-motor craft, make that several, we have “collateral damage” — another…