In Jack Murtha’s Nov. 17 press statement on the Iraq War, he said:

I believe with a U.S. troop redeployment, the Iraq security forces will be incentivized to take control.

Murtha said many fine things in this speech, but someone should’ve prevented his use of the word “incentivized”; surely motivated serves the purpose much better? I’m all for neologisms, but this was a linguistic felony.