Why, we're asked, are President Obama and Hillary Clinton so squeamish about the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism"?
And this is three decades before the founding of groups like Earth First! or the use of the phrase "radical environmentalist".
Obama also ridiculed what he called the "political distraction" that using the nebulous phrase "radical Islam" to describe Isis and related US adversaries would provide counter-terrorism advantages.
The philosopher and polemicist Daniel Dennett has coined the phrase "radical indeterminism" to try to pin down the problem of inscrutable behaviour.
And the composer Leonard Bernstein held a celebrity-packed fundraising party at his New York home, complete with uniformed Panthers, which was famously satirised by Tom Wolfe who minted the phrase "radical chic" to describe the rich and famous toying with revolutionary causes.
An initial test of McMaster's clout came in February, 2017, when he urged Trump not to use the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism" in a joint address to Congress.
Cooper asked the former secretary of state if the US was at war with "radical Islam" – a phrase Trump prefers but that both Clinton and Obama have sought to avoid, fearing its inflammatory potential.
Ignoring the advice of his new national-security adviser, H. R. McMaster, the President used and emphasized the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism," and promised to roll out a new version of his anti-Muslim travel ban, which the courts have frozen.
And, again, there was the contrast with Sanders's theatricality: in a discussion about the limitations of the phrase "radical Islam," Clinton got caught up in the fine print, in a way that will likely leave her open to out-of-context quoting.
Obama and Hillary Clintonn) won't use the phrase "radical Islam" when condemning the acts of terror.
