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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AMEN!!! ISIL is WITHOUT Israel!!
Obama thought that syntax would make going after these murderers politically correct. You have to be regionally sensitive. You don’t want to offend them.
Obama did not want to say ISIS because he and Hillary funded and armed ISIS. So he always referred to the fictitious group ISIL.
Barely remember him............
President Servpro, the deconstructionist.
I like it!
Issue after issue after issue after issue...
This guy is right on target.
I swear the guy has been reading Free Republic for some time.
arg... ISALM = ISLAM
Weren’t the Barbary Pirates also part of the gutter religion?
Great news!
Great news!
FINALLY!! It took until your post for someone to spell out exactly what Obama was saying. You beat me because I was looking for “your” post.
ISIL translates to Islamic State In the LEVANT. This means the existance of a Middle East totally lacking the State of Israel.
Just the mere use of the name ISIL gives away the hopes and desires of the speaker. Nuff said.
‘And ‘pock-ee-ston’.’
Obama was such a mess.
OMG! I hated his pronunciation of Pakistan.
Yet more proof he is not an American. I haven’t met everyone in the US ;) but I would bet my house no one says it like that.
Oddly, most of the LSM used ISIS instead of bowing to Bammy.
According to my SIL, military intelligence is referring to them as ISIL-K. Sadly, my aging mind can’t remember what the “K” refers to.
Trump may also be trying to get under Obama’s skin, and smoke his resistance further out into the open. Obama is such an immature, petulant narcissist, little things like this will drive him crazy.
So glad that POS is gone! Forgot what it was like to have an American president.
IS supporters, in any case, dislike the term Daesh as it does not spell out the crucial Islamic component. In the words of Simon Collis, the British Ambassador to Iraq: “Arabic speakers spit out the name Da’ish with different mixtures of contempt, ridicule and hostility. Da’ish is always negative.” It’s certainly entered the ever-adaptive Arabic language big time: in the plural form – “daw’aish” – it means bigots who impose their views on others.
Plus it’s easier to turn ISIS into WASWAS.
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