so as john dower wrote in his great book, cultures of war, i still think of these two sentences from a book i read. i don't know, ten, 15 years ago, most wars easy to initiate proved difficult and costly to end language, and rhetoric themselves become a prison and the machinery of destruction has its own momentum. in a sense, the bush administration entrapped itself. you know, when i read the the comments the interviews, the speeches and the news conferences off the page, the words off the page, i do get the impression that they were trying to be cautious. they weren't rushing to war. they wanted to give diplomacy a shot. but when i've gone back and now watched some of these speeches and rallies and interviews, such as on meet the press, it hits you differently. it's more bellicose, it's more threatening. and as dower said, language and rhetoric themselves become a prison. of course, later, global war, right? you've called it an axis of evil, right? of course, yes. the words become more threatening and they were intended to become more threatening because coercive the policy was desi