I think its odd that he alone insists on calling them ISIL, while almost everyone else calls them ISIS.
This from the president who says, to paraphrase, that calling terrorists adherents of radical Islam makes no difference, and that names don’t matter.
Yet this same man does not call ISIS by the name used by almost the entire world. Obviously it makes a difference to him to insist on calling them ISIL and using that acronym. Otherwise he would make it easy on us by using the ISIS acronym that the rest of the world uses.
Ironically, the killer in Orlando used the version ISIS.
The Levant is an historic name for the lands to the east of the Mediterranean--from the French word meaning the rising of the sun. So there is nothing inherently sinister in the term, but it's possible Obama does use it because he hopes that all the lands to the east of the Mediterranean (including Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon) will become part of the new caliphate. Or he could just be trying to show that he is more brilliant than anyone else.
Obama hopes to be Imam of ISIL, not Sec. General of U.N.