Defense ... what is it?

If someone swings a sword at you, and you raise your shield, that is defense.
If someone launches a drone at you and you shoot it down, that is defense.
If you bomb somebody's country after they've attacked yours, that is NOT defense. That is retaliation.

The propaganda misuse of the term "defense" is totally out of hand.  Defense is not synonymous with retaliation.  "The best defense is a good offense" is a witty phrase, but a witty phrase does not redefine the term "defense".

The trouble this has caused is now very real and very immense.  When the US says it will defend Israel, I personally believe it will only defend, that they intend to say "we will intercept attacks on Israel, but we won't attack Iran".  But they didn't say that.  The language is so unclear now that they MIGHT intend to "defend" Israel by bombing Iran.  Iran doesn't know what they mean.  Iran has to assume that the US intends to attack it.  And all of this security nightmare just because some asshole thought it would make good propaganda to erode the meaning of the term "defend".

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