"Lethal aid", a euphemism for U.S. arms shipments, slowly loses its quotes

First, you start calling things "non-lethal aid". Then you start calling weapons "lethal aid". The phrase appears sporadically in news coverage, slowly normalizing itself as a term of art among military-watchers and foreign policy nerds. Then it suddenly bursts into widespread use because of intensive use in military and government communications about "lethal aid" (i.e. — Read the rest