Syria and the ‘Vacuum’ Metaphor

Official Washington’s new “group think” is that President Obama’s hesitancy to fully invade Syria has created a “vacuum” that Russia is now filling, but the use of such metaphors can cloud serious analytical thinking and lead to catastrophic misjudgments, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains. By Paul R. Pillar Physical, spatial imagery has long…
from Propaganda Guard
http://propagandaguard.blogspot.com/2015/10/syria-and-vacuum-metaphor.html