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In his vulgar use of Holocaust metaphors to portray the Iranian threat, he sounds more like the principal of a Jewish ghetto about to be annihilated by an agitated mob than the prime minister of the most powerful country in the Middle East.

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In the ancient world there was a lot of respect for unintended consequences, and there was a very healthy sense of caution, reflected in the Tree of Knowledge, in Pandora's Box, and especially in the myth of Prometheus that's been so important in recent metaphors about technology.

But then he also used a lot of metaphors and visual words.

And when that happens, the feeling is ecstatic and we reach for metaphors of up and down to explain these feelings.

We turn facts into similes and metaphors, and even fantasies.

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