Do you see contradiction and irony in this news item by the AP?

Question

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A second U.S. aircraft carrier strike group now steaming toward the Middle East is Washington's way of warning Iran to back down in its attempts to dominate the region, a top U.S. diplomat said here Tuesday. AP

Answer 1

Irony is understood as an aesthetic valuation by an audience, which relies on a sharp discordance between the real and the ideal, and which is variously applied to texts, speech, events, acts, and even fashion. All the different senses of irony revolve around the perceived notion of an incongruity, or a gap, between an understanding of reality, or expectation of a reality, and what actually happens.

Irony has some of its foundation in our perception of paradox. Our perception of a disconnection between common expectation, and the application of logic with an unexpected outcome, both has an element of irony in it and shows the connection between irony and humor. Not all irony is humorous: nothing about Bush and his military imperialism is funny.

However, the AP news bulletin is less a contradiction than it is a form of Double-think, or the act of holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously, fervently believing both, despite being notionally aware of their incompatibility – rather, being willfully unaware.

Bush/Cheney is counting on the American people to hold two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies—all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth
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Doublethink was a form of trained, willful blindness to contradictions in a system of beliefs. Doublethink differed from ordinary hypocrisy in that the person who was "doublethinking" had to deliberately forget the contradiction between his two opposing beliefs — and then deliberately forget the fact that he had forgotten it. He then had to forget the forgetting of the forgetting, and so on; this process of intentional forgetting, once begun, continued indefinitely. Orwell describes this endless process as a kind of "controlled insanity."

Answer 2

i'm afraid India are criticized for flat worse ineffective pitches, no longer spin friendly pitches. a clean large difference. actually no longer something incorrect in any respect with dry/spinning pitches, yet flat/ineffective pitches are purely unacceptable no matter who produces them, and could be heavily punished. those pitches are utter shame, disrespect to objective cricket, its like spiting on attempt cricket. Its significant reason attempt cricket has declined in India. Now to your unique question, in the event that they are intentionally attempting to offer a spinning pitch. Then confident its a shame and that they are going to be rightfully reported as cowards. i'm going to be sending an extremely indignant mail to ECB if that became the case. they are protecting their No.a million spot, and that they might desire to be proving they are worth that spot. That reported i think of this is purely a hearsay. Like every person stated above England from previous overall performance are not particularly that large against Spin are they. SA have greater powerful spinners, Tahir is leg spinner, i do no longer think of England will danger it, whether some could have been calling to offer a spinning pitch. to no longer point out they does no longer start up getting solid spin till third day besides. Its purely a hearsay there is little doubt the pitch would be precisely comparable to India performed on final summer. i think of its time those pitch subject concerns are taken care of by ability of ICC, and regulations are delivered in. Flat/ineffective pitches banned, and heavily punished. There must be actually no longer something incorrect with spin friendly pitches, as long as they do supply spin, and their is contest between bat and ball. some thing else i could upload in regulations, the host board ought to offer the opposing group and the ICC al the main significant factors concerning the pitches they be producing ahead. So those sort of subject concerns might properly be resolved ahead, the opposing group can greater powerful prepare, and such issues might properly be thoroughly eradicated.

Answer 3

Yup, it's like Dave Barry said:

1. No other country can interfere with the political structure of any country in the western hemisphere
2. But we can
3. Ha ha ha

Answer 4

Uhm, no, quite frankly, I can see no contradiction or irony in this item at all.

Answer 5

OK, so now Iran and the US are hanging their coc*s out.
Impressive.

Answer 6

AP is notorious for contratictions.

Answer 7

I see it most of everything they print!

Answer 8

aircraft carriers aren't steam-powered! THAT NUTTY ASSOCIATED PRESS AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAZ

Answer 9

So, is it "Live in peace or rest in peace"?