The Economist and Bloomberg also called the downing of fighter jets an “escalation” by Iran. Everyone knows you’re supposed to just let invading militaries bomb your universities and girls’ schools and apartment buildings and that shooting back is an act of unhinged aggression.
If you’re invaded, 1000s of your people are killed, your infrastructure destroyed and your leadership is wiped out in a sneak attack, anything short of you doing this to the enemy in response cannot, by definition, be an “escalation”. Thats how language works, that how words work
Last I checked Iran has done exactly zero of these things to the US so they have not come remotely close to “escalating.” Being Modestly Successful At Fighting Back is not an “escalation.”
I am going to become the joker
Capturing POW’s bombing your population is, of course, not “hostage taking”.
Recall “kidnapped from a tank”
“Fighter pilot…taken hostage”
[disgusted Stabler voice] he was just a 32 year old bombing a college dorm
BBC is also calling the American POW a “hostage”. Again what do words mean really bbc.com/news/live/cm29…
ABC News Australia is also calling the downed POW a potential “hostage”
.@abbydphillip also calls the downed pilot a "hostage"
@abbydphillip ostensibly straight reporter @Elex_Michaelson also refers the downed pilot as a potential "hostage"
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