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   Hi, Paul Quinn!   
   I read your message from 25.10.2019 09:55   
      
    AK>> The last two lines are unclear for me, especially "casting it a   
    AK>> hasty helicopters-on-the-roof moment for American power".   
      
    PQ> It's wonderful journalistic jingoism at play again. It's a simile.   
    PQ> A reference to some televised scenes of American personnel &   
    PQ> equipment making many hasty exits from built-up areas in Vietnam.   
    PQ> If the writer had worded the by-line "... it as a hasty..." you   
    PQ> probably wouldn't be asking your question.   
      
   Ah, they were evacuated then right from the building roofs because they were   
   surrounded by the Vietnamese, and it looks like a river flood. Yes?   
      
   Bye, Paul!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2019   
      
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