“Attacks on U.S. citizens are unacceptable, no matter where or under what circumstances they happen.”
– THE WEAK WORDS OF WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY KARINE JEAN-PIERRE
Think of THE WEAKEST POSSIBLE ADJECTIVES you could use to express outrage at the murder of American citizens by Mexican drug cartels. The White House Press Secretary characterized the deadly attack as “this awful incident.”
Other, similarly antiseptic, diplomatic terms Biden administration officials might consider employing to describe the recent killings: unfortunate, unhelpful, unlawful, unneighborly, regrettable, improper, lamentable.
Stronger adjectives are conspicuously absent from the vocabulary of these federal officials, words such as “tragic,” “horrific,” “murderous,” “barbaric,” “criminal.” Or how about “OUTRAGEOUS!”