"boots on the ground"

[David Daniel]

I must say my immediate reaction upon hearing the non-ISIS references was
that the spin people didn't want them to have a cool-sounding name.
DAD

Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 1:18 PM
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Poster:       Christopher Philippo <toff at MAC.COM>
Subject:      Re: "boots on the ground"
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On Sep 26, 2014, at 12:01 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> =
wrote:
> does anyone have a take on why the U.S. =3D
> government (and maybe U.K., I can't remember) insists on referring to =
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> our enemy as ISIL when everyone else calls them ISIS?

Possibly because Al-Sham means even less to Americans than the Levant =
does, and because it doesn=92t make sense to give a nasty organization a =
nice acronym like ISIS.  Why not the Association for Slaughtering the =
Sum of Humanity Over the Levant Entire?  Members of the organization =
could then be called, you know=85

Chris Philippo=

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