“And
you quit footing the bill for these nations who are oil-rich, we’re
paying for some of their squirmishes that have been going on for
centuries. Where they’re fighting each other and yelling ‘Allahu akbar,’
calling jihad on each other’s heads forever and ever. Like I’ve said
before, let them duke it out and let Allah sort it out.”
Here,
Mrs. Palin accomplishes many things unusual for a political speaker:
She recites the Arabic phrase for “God is great,” and, more notably,
coins a new word, squirmishes, a cross between squirm (which means to
wriggle the body from side to side) and skirmish (which means a brief
fight or encounter between small groups). Twitter embraced the new term
instantly.
