RE: Breaking News: Al-Zarqawi May Be Among Dead in Iraq Figh
You all remember don't you when bin Laden made headlines asking Zarqawi to be part of al Qaeda?
You all remember that these two guys were not the best of buddies in the past?
After bin Laden's request, the world media amazingly went along with the Zarqawi accepting bin Laden's label.
Truly amazing.
Zarqawi is no more al Qaeda than you or I.
Even the idea of al Qaeda as a fiction is embraced by the world media because it is better to embrace a two-word label than it is to print a paragraph why they are using this noun.
It's a point exposed by George Orwell's iconic book, "1984" wherein we the reader are entertained by the inconvenience of losing short nouns from our language that used to telescopically and conveniently with brevity make a point.
How laborious it is to lose one word and have to make up for the loss of that one word with a whole paragraph.
Orwell was a genius.
