Analogy --- Please also note that there is analogy at play here Liliana, one that automatically evokes the connotations that support the claim - children in Hiroshima dies because AMERICANS dropped the atomic bomb, i.e., everyone immediately knows who the culprit is. Using this analogy Stahl helps establish the connection of the US being guilty in both cases; Hiroshima AND Iraq.

To understand this better, try imagining Stahl using a different analogy, say "...more children than died in Mao's China". Would that have had the same effect?

Source author: Andrej Skrinjaric andrejs@diplomacy.edu