… “Napalm” is. I remember our previous president being mercilessly abused for his equivocating about the definition of “is”. It was a lawyerly shade of meaning which played terribly to the public. But no one died.
The same can’t be said for the military’s claim that no napalm was used in Iraq. In fact, they claimed that the last batch of napalm was destroyed in 2001. They were telling the truth, in the same way that this administration always tells the truth. Y’see, we didn’t drop “napalm” on Iraq, we dropped Mark 77 firebombs. Much different: see, napalm is a mixture of gasoline, benzene and a liquid styrofoam; Mark 77 firebombs use jet fuel and liquid styrofoam. So when the Pentagon denied they were using napalm, they weren’t lying. I don’t think the people with burning jellied petroleum products clinging to their skin and causing nearly untreatable burns would have cared about the distinction.
