Strategy

The word is frequently used by Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

He has been chastised in the media for using the word as a red herring--to detract from the real problem of ignorance which lies within himself. He knows little about the world and about current geopolitical realities. But to avoid exposing his state of blank-slatedness in these matters, he uses the word "strategy" forcefully.

Last night Romney couldn't say anything concrete about foreign policy issues, but said he had a "strategy" for global affairs. At one point he said he had a "strategy" for not only solving the problems in the Middle-East, but also in the whole world.

So, he has a "strategy" for the world?

What does that mean?

Nothing.

The word was made famous by George Bush Jr, except that he said "stragety". The action that ensued from the Bush regime is invasion and war.

Regardless of whether a politician uses the word "strategy" or a Bushism version of it, I believe the word itself is an empty, and permit me to say this--a hoax word.

It's a managerial word that implies nothing but a deferral of action, or a form of action that is monolithic and gets botched easily because it doesn't take into account the messy changeability of real situations. Real situations continually evolve and take up different direction at varying points in space and time. No "strategy" can manage and control this.

We could campaign for bidding adieu to "strategy".