Subliminal associations --- Agreed, Petru, they are distinct terms but I think that Obama intended for us to confuse them in a way that was plausibly deniable (he never said they were equivalent) but that nevertheless gave people the feeling (by allusion) that this kind of war was just and therefore justified. I may well be wrongly imputing intentions to him, but this is how spin works best: by subliminal association.

Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu