The Decade of Double-Talk?

Everywhere you look someone is engaging in the futile effort to define the decade just past (Yes, decades end in 09. I don't care if there was no year 0. It is just easier this way.) It is going to be hard when we can't even agree on what to call the last 10 years. However, a recent Chicago Tribune editorial called this "The Decade of Double-Talk." That seems as good a title as any, but in that same article they outline generations of Extreme Euphemisms.
For example, we have not failed to capture Osama bin Laden. No, former Homeland Security adviser Frances Townsend says it is "a success that hasn't occurred yet."
Nobody likes being laid off. So Nokia conducted a "synergy-related headcount restructuring."
As George Carlin pointed out (below), "shell shock" is now "post traumatic stress disorder."
But, this isn't new. after the Civil War, people often referred to the death of hundreds of thousands as "The Late Unpleasantness."
The again, we may have jumped the shark when some school systems dropped "phys-ed" or "gym" for "kinetic wellness."