That euphemism is the term Team Obama allows to be employed in lieu of phrases that actually describe the nature of the principal enemy we face at the moment: Muslims who engage in holy war-- jihad-- to compel the rest of us to submit to the totalitarian, supremacist political-military-legal doctrine they call shariah.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The enemy is inside the wire

We are stronger, we are safer, we have taken the fight to our principal enemy with a level of aggression and success that is unprecedented.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney