ISIS vs. ISIL

What's in a name? The Obama administration insists upon calling the current insurrection in northern Iraq and Syria "ISIL" which stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Levant ...  as opposed to "ISIS" which stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Therefore the key to this mystery is the word Levant ... so, in order to clear things up, I went to my good friend, Google, and found the following information:

Countries and regions located in the Levant region. (Cyprus, Hatay, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria)
Countries and regions sometimes included in the Levant region. (Iraq and Sinai)
Entire territory of countries whose regions are included in the Levant region. (Egypt and Turkey)

To see the actual source of this information, go to: Wikipedia Entry.

So Obama and his ragtag posse of Keystone Kops are allowing that this "non-Islamic" insurgency really is laying claim to a much larger area than it currently controls ... including Israel. This gives it a lot more credit than it clearly deserves.

Why would the Obama administration insist on doing this?

I'm going to keep calling it ISIS ...