stranded as the white house official position on what's happening for it. >> i'm calling you out for saying that we are stranding americans in afghanistan. >> we continue to hear the stories of people who do want t get out in the ministration continues to use that language if they want to leave, we all know anecdotally people who are trying to get out of there. >> i can understand her role in this particular circumstance, but you can also understand why so many people reacted with suc fury when she tried to suggest that the very use of the word stranded was somehow untoward. for the record, the dictionary defines being stranded as quote being unable to leave somewhere because of a problem such is no having any transport or money, so pervious use of the word stranded today was less a repudiation perhaps of the attempt at pugnacious news rather than it was a acknowledgment of what is actually happening on the groun itself. it is proof that no amount of wordplay can for the american