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Operation Odyssey Dawn sounds like …

A Carnival cruise liner, a Philip K. Dick novel, a stripper's name: We search for the best suggestions

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It’s been five days since the U.S. and its NATO allies began imposing a no-fly zone over Libya, and the American public has plenty of questions. What’s Obama’s end game here? Why weren’t congressional leaders consulted? And … what exactly does “Odyssey Dawn” mean?

The official name of the Libyan mission is actually a product of the military’s semi-randomized naming system, so it doesn’t mean much at all. But to more than a few commentators, it sounds nothing like the name of a military operation and much more like:

By Teresa Cotsirilos

Teresa Cotsirilos is an editorial fellow at Salon.


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