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Originally Posted by Ample
"Weapons of Mass destruction" or WMDs. I have few problems with this.
First, call a spade a spade, don't sugar coat it. It a bomb.
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Last, why is the media using acronyms or jargon that the military uses? They have their language and we have ours. I’m sure only a small percentage of Americans that are non-vets have any idea what these reporters are talking about sometimes.
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Two words.
Fox News.
Apparently it's "cool" and, one must presume, patriotic to use military speak.
It kinda gives me the shits to hear a TV journalist waffle on as if he/she graduated from Sandhurst or West Point.
Mr Mephisto