Word of the day: excursion

The current occupant keeps using the word: it’s an excursion, and also a war. I thought that he must have been mistaking the word for incursion or even expedition, but perhaps not. From the Oxford English Dictionary :

Military. A charge, attack, or incursion into enemy territory made from a position of defence; a sortie, raid, or military expedition.

Perhaps the current occupant latched on to the word after hearing it in the discourse of the lunatic who has given us narco-communism and warfighter . Perhaps the occupant thinks the word makes him sound smarter. But most civilians think of excursion as denoting a short pleasure trip. Hearing or reading the word with reference to war will likely confound people — as everything about the war itself should.