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by marincounty
3855 days ago
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I've wondered why Obama uses ISIL, while practically everyone else is using ISIS. I don't think it's just because he wants to remain consistent in his rhetoric. He must have a some advisor telling him to that acronym? I think the use of two acronyms helps with the confusion. I believe Obama is a good man, but is really torn on what to do. I think about him sitting in the White House, and thinking--I can't bear to see another young man come home without legs. I guess we will send in a drone, and hope for no civilian casualties? To anyone over there--the average American does not like the way our leaders treats your land, and people. Even though we have a democracy, we don't have much say in anything. We are all just pawns of our government. Guys join the military in order to get ahead in this competitive society. They don't realize the military offers very little job/career preparation. To any father who still tells his son, "What you need is a few years in the military!". Dummy up! If you have no good advice for your children; just be quiet? My old man was big on the military talk. I found out later his father paid a doctor to get him out of the Vietnam draft. I loved my dad, but he was a hypocrite. Even though I couldn't stand listening to his alcohol fueled diatribes, I still love the man. |
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The State Department interpretation of 'al Sham' is Levant, hence the 'L'. Other agencies translate it as Syria because Levant doesn't incorporate the full area. But there's no one-to-one Western name for the region indicated by the Arabic word.
The whole Daesh meme is amusingly naive; it's like calling "NATO" as "OTAN" ( its French abbreviation ) and claiming that it annoys the British. Really, they have better things about which to concern themselves than the actually accurate abbreviation some distant foreigners have adopted for them.