DISproPORtionATE

When 19 Wahhabist criminals train in the mountains of Afghanistan and in the United States to hijack airliners for use as flying bombs, and the government of the U.S. immediately implements plans to fool the American public into supporting the attacking, invading, and occupying of a nation that was neither involved in the crime nor a threat to the U.S. that's...
DISPROPORTIONATE

When renegade Shia militiamen raid northern Israel in order to capture a few soldiers to use as leverage in negotiations for the return of thousands held captive by the Israelis, and the Israeli government immediately implements a year-old plan to bombard the buildings, roads, bridges, and airports, with millions of pounds of explosives, from land, sea, and air, of it's democratic neighbor's capitol... that's ...

DISPROPORTIONATE

And when diplomats from all around the world gather to consternate over how to stop small nations from developing the weapons they need for self-defense after the repeated aggressions of states who already possess those weapons in massive quantities... well, you guessed it... that too is...
DISPROPORTIONATE

A damned handy word, DISPROPORTIONATE. I expect to see it used quite often during the balance of my lifetime. Although I would also expect that those who use it will be most discriminating without the slightest sense of irony.

stephenhsmith
22Jul2006