Cathrina Krab

I saw this blurb on Yahoo News about the Russian invasion of Georgia today:

“AP – Russian tanks rolled into the crossroads city of Gori on Wednesday then thrust deep into Georgian territory, violating the truce designed to end the six-day war that has uprooted 100,000 people and scarred the Georgian landscape.”

Is it just me, or is the rape metaphor in this sentence somewhat intense? Not that it isn’t completely apt or justified, just that it made me actually squirm. In a good way — in an I’m-feeling-the-brutality-of-the-situation-through-your-imagery kind of way. Maybe “good” is not the right word: “effective” is more on target. Practically a polemic when you think about it.