Jargon Watch: Escalation Surge

There's a new way to characterize the throwing of good troops after dead. At least, according to Condoleezza Rice:

In a heated exchange with [Sen. Chuck] Hagel, a potential presidential candidate in 2008, Rice disputed his characterization of Bush's buildup as an "escalation."

"Putting in 22,000 more troops is not an escalation?" Hagel, a Vietnam veteran and longtime critic of Bush's Iraq policy, asked. "Would you call it a decrease?"

"I would call it, senator, an augmentation …"

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Thanks to Frank Rich [T$], for pointing this out.