How the White House’s John Kirby is taking on the word ‘genocide’

An inveterate grammarian, Kirby is pushing Biden's support of Israel even as Biden makes amends with Arab Americans

John Kirby, the story goes, once used the military discipline that helped propel him to admiral rank in the US navy to launch a rhetorical war on behalf of the English language.

As the navy's chief information officer, Kirby bluntly advised underlings in his department to kick their supposed addiction to technical jargon and learn a second language: English", according to a 2014 profile in Politico.