Make a Desert & Call it Peace, or Cognitive Dissonance
Declaring that “justice has been served,” Vice President Kamala Harris said on Thursday that the killing of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader whom she called the “mastermind” of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, created an opportunity to end the war in Gaza (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/us/politics/harris-yahya-sinwar-hamas-israel-gaza.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)
Surely this is cognitive dissonance:
for how does America not see how the world sees it?
How apt Tacitus’ expression describing the Roman subjugation of Britain,
“They make a desert, & call it peace!”
As it is remembered, though it might be better translated as “they make a solitude, & call it peace”
(for that supposed speech by the Scottish chief Galgacus, that Tacitus’ biography of his father in law Gnaeus Julius Agricola who had governed Britain, recounts as beginning “Whenever I consider the origin of this war”, & ends, describing the Roman conquerors, thus: “Quotiens causas belli et necessitatem nostram intueor……auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.”)
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