Back in the day a lot of the long titled songs came out in the middle of their "post-modern irony" AB/ZOO TV/POP phase, so one might look at a title like - Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World or Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car etc and go "okay so that's U2 being all post-modern irony, nice...", same with some of the silly throwaway lyrics on the three records (and Passsengers).
However now and since 2000, you know when they went back into deep sincerity/soundbyte's r us "America is an idea", "Three bad albums and.." mode, they often get it in the neck for these longish and awkward titles that make such daft acronymns plus the often clunky wordplay gets far more critique than say some of the perceived dodgy lines in Babyface, Playboy Mansion, Lady With The Spinning Head or Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses did...