But “al Qaeda has been decimated”
I suppose that if you go by the original definition of decimated . . .
Khorosan is al Qaeda. And ISIS or whatever they’re calling it this week was al Qaeda in Iraq or some such before that. At this point, the only reason to keep up with the name is political.
September 29th, 2014 at 4:04 pm
Well, decimation is only a 1/10 reduction in strength, after all…
September 29th, 2014 at 4:05 pm
Look! Squirrel.
September 29th, 2014 at 6:35 pm
If an official spokesperson is using decimated, it means reduced by a tenth, because those spokespersons know their words, mostly.