Weight of rhetoric reveals an argument’s true allegiance.

Evidence

Compare the angry fist raised by “mortal danger”, “survival of democratic society”, “a large number of its citizens”, and “national security” (all straight out of the post-9/11 propaganda machinery) with the pallid “it would seem essential for congress to insist on the right to tour detention facilities”, “in camera,” and “closed session”. On one side we have a massive mobilization of Bush administration buzz words, on the other a limp attempt at reasonableness. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 287