Posted on 02/24/2017 1:32:11 PM PST by Impy
Ahead of a highly anticipated report the Pentagon will deliver to the White House on a new plan to defeat the Islamic State group, the biggest change employed by the military may be in the name of the enemy itself.
The Defense Department now officially refers to its primary foe in Iraq and Syria as "ISIS," according to a memo the Pentagon issued earlier this month.
Since the campaign began in 2014, military officials grappled with President Barack Obama's preferred "ISIL," short for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a more regionally sensitive and accurate translation of the terror network's geographic scope but hardly as verbally pliable as Trump's go-to term.
"The Defense Department will use the term Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, when referring to this threat," Defense Department Executive Secretary Michael Bruhn wrote in a Feb. 13 memo obtained by U.S. News and sent to each of the military departments and leaders within the Pentagon. It cites the memo the White House released on Jan. 28 calling on the defense secretary to prepare a new plan to defeat the Islamic State group.
The review Trump ordered on Jan. 28 is due by Tuesday and calls on the military, intelligence agencies and departments of State and Treasury to develop "comprehensive strategy and plans for the defeat of ISIS." It follows the president's repeated pledge he would defeat ISIS, which he said he would achieve "with very fast results."
Military officials may also use the term, "Daesh," a derogatory Arabic acronym favored among America's allies in the war against the Islamic State group.
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I guess they were trying it out and it just didn’t play. It’s what all the foreign news outlets use, including UK. I don’t know why the F we’d want to use an Arabic (transliterated of course) language acronym. They (ISIS) do hate it though, they cut the tongues out of people they hear saying it.
ITHIL
Love Trump!
Bumwahdis
And ‘pock-ee-ston’. Ugh!
Ping
It offended their ‘muzz sensibilities’, so they stopped it.
YES!!!!
Someone gets it!!
Good “Levant” implies that they of Israel...Obama purposely used to give them status and dominance over that region.
“I hated it when Obama said “ISIL”.
Especially when he whistled the “s”. He just loved to whistle the “s”.
Great! There was no good reason for Obozo to be calling them “ISIL” — that gave unwarranted credence to their pretense that they claim all of the “Levant” (includes Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan) when in reality they control only some territory in Syria and Iraq.
Is it also now OK for Defense Department staff to say “Pakistan” without pronouncing it “Pocky-Stahn”?
Are we back to having 50 states now, or at least fewer than 57 or 58, now that Obama has left the building?
I thought Levant specifically included Israel, thus Obummer liked to use it to show that he was cool with the idea of an islamic takeover of Israel.
Obama was not being “ sensitive” to these throat cutters’ ‘ geographic scope - he was legitimizing their geographic ambitions
He was sending a message of support every time he said ISIL
Just like Obozo to give propaganda support to our jihadist enemies.
It’s not gay to have a man-crush on the Trumpster, is it? Everything he is doing is right on!
Right on.
It’s about time...ISIL includes Israel and Obama knew it...
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