Incursion, Invasion, Operation

Not taking sides in the current warfare, but I have a question on the way it is being reported.

Israel's attacks on Lebanon are being described as an “incursion” and not an “invasion”.   I wonder why?  Does”incursion” sound less “invasive”, less permanent, less violent?

It is similar to the US invasion or Iraq, which was generally referred to as an “operation.”  AN operation sounds like a sterile surgical procedure to remove a disease.

Regardless of  where it takes place or who is involved, if we called war “war”, we might be less willing to agree to it.

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The choice of words to use do manipulate the reader… “the suspect was nabbed”

Isreal put up a “fence” to keep “terrorists” from getting in…

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The best at manipulating the news via the language wins…

They are actually manipulating our consciousness for the long term… long, long term… and that is very harmful for our peaceful life here on earth. 

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> They are actually manipulating our consciousness for the long term

Ah, and like Jedi mind tricks, they only work on minds that don’t have the tools, skills, or knowledge to recognize it and filter it. Here’s where we have truely failed ourselves: our schools haven’t taught meaningful critical thinking skills in decades. IMHO, THAT is what is harmful to a peaceful life here on earth.

NLP is a fabulous clarifier for this sort of thing: it presents codified methods for taking and assessing perspectives. For example, by asking a few questions about any statement or story, you can readily disarm it of any manipulations.

Who is speaking?
What is their relationship to the subject?
Why are they speaking? What is their purpose?
What do they really know about it? (How are they qualified to speak?)
Which statements are assessments, and which are assertions? (opinion vs. accepted fact?)
If they are declaring something, what authority do they have to uphold the declaration?

If we trained our children to ask these questions as a habit, not only would it become so second-nature as to happen in a splite-second (no overhead cost to speak of), but the journalists would change their writing radically because people would see their stories very differently. They’d be back to reporting facts rather than coloring drama and interpreting for us.

Teach a child you know some great qualifying questions today!

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Totally agree

I've done some NLP work with a local (DC area) practioner and with Charles Faulkner … (like 15 years ago… in my business re-engineering days) most people are afraid of the power of NLP and to me it is just that reason that one should study it, learn it… and learn it well… so you can see when manipulation is coming at you…

There are so many life skills that could be taught… can you imagine what it would be like if High School graduates had … some of these skills… but no… we are graduating obese, game playing spoiled self centered… stop me !!!

Well, at least immigration - of the cream from India etc… still fill our PhD programs with brainacs… if and when that ever stops… look out…

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but of course we are all above average here… eh?

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love and peace

donald, who flunked spelling among other things… (I was like, absent that day)