Word: bunkerisms
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...could barely breathe, a buddy who died. Last week, the 73-year-old veteran returned to the site of the battle that led to France's withdrawal from Vietnam. "It's changed a lot," he said, scanning a parking lot jammed with motorbikes near a carefully preserved French bunker...
...could barely breathe, a buddy who died. Last week, the 73-year-old veteran returned to the site of the battle that led to France's withdrawal from Vietnam. "It's changed a lot," he said, scanning a parking lot jammed with motorbikes near a carefully preserved French bunker. In a celebration both reverent and self-serving, the ruling Communist Party commemorated the 50th anniversary of the French surrender with fireworks and dance performances; in Paris, French President Jacques Chirac hailed his country's fallen soldiers who "turned a disaster into an epic." Vietnam's military mastermind General Vo Nguyen...
Buckley responds: I intended a little fun, in the context of teasing the pretensions of left-wing faculty. Archie Bunker-talk can come in handy. It is used as "yassir" might have been used, to suggest subordinate status...
...loyal retainers. I suspect the Woody Allen and Joe Public stories are true. They are moments when the curtain of platitudes is parted and the quality of Bush's sensibility is revealed. I also suspect the larger picture--the world as seen from the West Wing bunker--is distressingly accurate as well. Bush endures countless military briefings about the war to come. He pays assiduous attention to speech texts and rehearsals. But there are practically no meetings--or questions from the President--about what will happen in Iraq after the initial military success. There is only sad, soft Colin Powell...
...loyal retainers. I suspect the Woody Allen and Joe Public stories are true. They are moments when the curtain of platitudes is parted and the quality of Bush's sensibility is revealed. I also suspect the larger picture-the world as seen from the West Wing bunker-is distressingly accurate as well. Bush endures countless military briefings about the war to come. He pays assiduous attention to speech texts and rehearsals. But there are practically no meetings-or questions from the President-about what will happen in Iraq after the initial military success. There is only sad, soft Colin Powell...