Summary: an evolving list
Ambrose Bierce defined politics in his Devil’s Dictionary as “The conduct of public affairs for private advantage”.
As Trump, Netanyahu and Putin continue to use this as their platonic ideal, here are a few more commonly used terms to better understand this brand of politics in the 21st Century.
- Terrorism: violence committed by the enemy against civilians.
- Self-defence: violence committed by ourselves against civilians.
- Tragic mistake: violence committed by ourselves against civilians after we got caught.
- Investigation: a process for discovering that the “tragic mistake” was unavoidable.
- Context: why the “tragic mistake” was all the enemy’s fault.
- Responsibility: we are sorry that the enemy made us kill those civilians.
- Consolation: nits become lice.
aidanjmcquade 
Excellent summary!
As Meir – that famous twister of history and moral logic once said: …we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.