The Tortured Language Of War Rhetorical Analysis

In an article called “The tortured language of war: Whitewashing atrocities” by Shamai Leibowitz, uses tone and emotive language to try to influence audience attitudes. His intent to “Shape” audience attitudes is to use the tone and chooses his words to make an impact on the people who are reading what he has to argue about. In the event that, by using a certain tone in whether if it’s angry, sad, surprised, or compassion, the intent it to make the readers to have the emotions that Leibowitz is describing it to you.
Shamai Leibowitz argument is very detailed and impacts one with his anger and how such can be happening in the Middle East. For instance, “ When Israel bombed a civilian building in Quana in which Lebanese families sought refuge …show more content…
“… lack of backbone, or shall we say lack of integrity, of fair-minded civil society in the US.” That the US is just relying on what the media covers up so the truth doesn’t scare many, in the case, censoring the truth. Therefore, government censoring what Israels heinous crimes, hence, describing by Leibowitz, “– can we really expect anything else from the mainstream media?” Media is censoring all the deaths and terrorizing million civilians, “Horrifying crimes unfolding today…” All of which obviously plays with the audience's emotions if the media is censoring many of the truth, what is left? Leibowitz brings in all these words to open up the eyes of many, and in which he has done by the tone in this argument to present his view on is happening in the Middle