WHEN IT COMES TO WAR, LANGUAGE HAS NO MEANING

I've seen the phrase "humanitarian intervention" in connection with bombing Syria.  How can bombing people be humanitarian?  We know that civilians will be killed, perhaps by the thousands,  if cruise missiles ( really not all that accurate) are launched.  It isn't just that we live in a Brave New World of doublespeak, it seems to be the case that, in this world,  political language has no meaning:  It is a world which has a reality of its own, a world where it's ok to kill more children to avenge the deaths of already dead children.  It's a world where "limited action" is ok because it's not war. Well, shooting missiles and dropping bombs (as Zoe Lofgren D-Calif. points out, is war, and we would consider it an act of war if somebody shot cruise missiles at Washington for only one day.