No matter what you call the terror group now running an area of land the size of Belgium, the one thing you must call them is Islamic. I wish this was the worst of it, but the whole name thing is making me a little crazy. First they were called ISIS:The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Then they were called ISIL:The Islamic State of Syria and the Levant. Finally they are IS:TheIslamic State. Or are they? Depends on who you listen to. Even then pronunciations seem to change.
In the beginning everyone called them ISIS, pronouncing it as one word sounding almost identical to the English world Ices. Back then, when the administration saw them as the JV(Junior Varsity) team, they went along with calling them ISIS as well. Even when the terrorists started calling themselves ISIL, initially most people still called them ISIS. Now however, the administration has such an insistence on calling them ISIL they won’t even acknowledge the name ISIS when mentioned. What makes it even more bizarre, or even irritating is that the President and Secretary of State call the group ISIL and pronounce close to the English words, ICE-ILL, while the President’s Press Secretary and Pentagon Spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby spell it out, referring to them as I-S-I-L. This all creates an annoying distraction at press conferences. A CNN reporter might ask: “What’s the next move against ISIS (ICES)?” Then, depending on who answers, “We must degrade and destroy ISIL(ICE-ILL) or I-S-I-L.” One area in which the administration is coordinated though is that they never respond using the name ISIS anymore.
Despite the theories from those most suspicious of the President’s motives, I don’t believe the insistence on calling it ISIL is based on something dangerously devious, rather an acknowledgment that it is a threat to a greater area, since the IL covers significant more territory than the IS. The last IS that is. The first IS, whether you call it ISIS or ISIL stands for Islamic, which means very simply this group is an Islamic group, no matter what anyone including the President might want you to believe. And more importantly, no matter what you call them, they are very dangerous. This is a war. Oh wait. Not sure if that’s what it’s being called either. It just might also depend on who you ask. At least I hope what we have now is a coordinated effort to conduct this whatever they’re calling it against whatever it is they call them.
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