[AM2000]

Raids can only mean a police action on a bordello? You are grasping at straws here.

Here's a link where the Navy itself calls the attacks on Pearl Harbor a "raid". Maybe that will make you realize that the word 'raid' doesn't just mean cops busting whorehouses.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm

[crazyhorse691]

Not a straw in sight around here. You are arguing for the sake of arguing. It was dishonest and deceitful for JFK to refer to it as a raid. He is trying to downplay the emotional impact. You argue about the literal meaning of a word(IS) and everybody else seems to be way past that. You having a bad day or is there a nefarious reason for your position?

[LibertarianInExile]

I agree with you that the technical usage of the term is correct. However, it's been decades since Doolittle's Raiders, and the connotation everyone places on the word is all teensploitation movie now, ala "panty raid."

He could have called it a "annoyance," or a "perturbation," and been technically right, too, but the current connotation of those words, and this one, is what is galling, I think, to others.