Marine Memo: “Fighting al-Qaida” sounds good
A Marine Corps memo, circulated after the 2005 Haditha massacre, was made public. “’Fighting terrorists associated with Al Qaida’ is stronger language than ’serving’,” read the memo. “The American people will side more with someone actively fighting a terrorist organization that is tied to 9/11 than with someone who is idly ’serving,’ like in a way one ’serves’ a casserole.”
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