"Post-Kinetic Environment"

Ambassador Crocker made a reference to reconstruction teams making funds available for projects in "post-kinetic environments." In case you don't get that reference, a "post-kinetic environment" is, for example, a neighborhood that's been leveled by American military action.

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I really think that Democrats need to do more to make hay out of conservative political correctness. This one's particularly bad ... but others include "detainees" instead of "prisoners" and of course "aggressive interrogation techniques". It really is time to turn the tables on the PC game ... people hate weasel words like this.

Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot | September 10, 2007 2:28 PM

The mosque isn't burning, sir, its merely been thermodynamically enabled!

Posted by Chris | September 10, 2007 2:33 PM

a "post-kinetic environment" is, for example, a neighborhood that's been leveled by American military action.

Or the environment inside Crocker's pants.

Posted by mrs. crocker | September 10, 2007 2:33 PM

Matt,

This is the best shot you can take at Crocker's testimony? How weak. You know military counterinsurgency doctrine isn't to level neighborhoods, and that "kinetic" refers to any operation that requires military force.

Posted by Fred | September 10, 2007 2:34 PM

So would a base on a hill be a potential environment, then?

Posted by Senescent | September 10, 2007 3:14 PM

The point of each entry is to "take a shot" at those who represent failed policies. This is a very serious blog, rebutting talking points every time they're repeated.

Posted by (a note) | September 10, 2007 3:15 PM

Can we get a well-funded, well-administered, high-manpower reconstruction effort for a certain post-immersion environment on the gulf coast?

Posted by Warren Terra | September 10, 2007 3:45 PM

You know military counterinsurgency doctrine isn't to level neighborhoods, and that "kinetic" refers to any operation that requires military force.

Then why do they need funds to, and I use the term offered by others, "reconstruct" these "post-kinetic environments?"

Posted by John Cole | September 10, 2007 4:18 PM

Matt,
Very clever analysis. Are you the guy in the pink jumpsuit who was thrown out of the hearing?

Posted by TJM | September 10, 2007 4:46 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

Oceania is at war with Eurasia.

Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.

Posted by jonathan | September 10, 2007 5:58 PM