Indeed, those claims were of a piece with the linguistic obfuscations that dominate American public debate: just as carpet bombing was called “pacification” during the Vietnam War, today illegal immigrants are called “undocumented aliens.”
De hecho, esas afirmaciones eran idénticas a las obscuridades lingüísticas que predominan en el debate público americano: así como se llamó “pacificación” a los bombardeos en masa durante la guerra de Vietnam, hoy se llama “extranjeros indocumentados” a los inmigrantes ilegales.