Friday, October 24, 2014

Why Am I Talking About the War against Islam State?



Actually, it grew out of the idea about something that I’ve noticed about how the Western media and governments make their choices regarding disputed geographical nomenclature. The digressions just got out of hand, is all. I haven’t had the time to do the Japanese translation. Tomorrow, maybe.

1 comment:

Robert Dujarric said...

I think the Caliphate is a better term. Of course, there's no consensus in the Moslem world about Al-Bagdadi being a real caliph, but then we refer to North Korea as the DPRK despite credible reports that's it's not democratic.