loco_moco's Blog

This fascinating new coinage comes to us from the Pentagon, courtesy of a front page WashPost story today.  It refers to troops' efforts to interrupt the manufacture and transportation of roadside bombs before they are emplaced and detonated -- hence, to the "left" of the "BOOM!" on a normal left-to-right timeline.

But this new phrase is also destined to have marvelous applicability in the socio-political "theatre of operations". 

The next time we begin to hear the jingoistic rhetoric, and see the political machinations start to rev up, for another opportunistic "preemptive" war like the current one -- we will be shrewd enough and bold enough to speak up immediately and declare:

NO -- we are going to stop this one "Left Of Boom"!