"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