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   Hi! Alexander,   
      
   On 25 Oct 19 09:28, you wrote to All:   
      
    AK> The last two lines are unclear for me, especially "casting it a hasty   
    AK> helicopters-on-the-roof moment for American power".   
      
   It's wonderful journalistic jingoism at play again.  It's a simile.  A   
   reference to some televised scenes of American personnel & equipment making   
   many hasty exits from built-up areas in Vietnam.  If the writer had worded the   
   by-line "...it as a hasty..." you probably wouldn't be asking your question.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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