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   Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:   
      
    AK>  -----Beginning of the citation-----   
    AK>  The rapid exit of US forces that left the Kurds   
    AK>  exposed was a gift to Putin: Russian journalists   
    AK>  roaming newly abandoned US military bases played   
    AK>  the moment for all it was worth, casting it a hasty   
    AK>  helicopters-on-the-roof moment for American power.   
    AK>  ----- The end of the citation -----   
      
    AK>  The last two lines are unclear for me, especially   
    AK>  "casting it a hasty helicopters-on-the-roof moment   
    AK>  for American power".   
      
      
              I agree with you that various journalists... regardless of who   
   their employers are, BTW... may have "exaggerated the American retreat".  And   
   I agree with Paul that where he & I come from the majority of TV journalists   
   seem to be "in the business of selling viable commercial air time to   
   advertisers".  If the upcoming news or weather report sounds quite dramatic,   
   folks are more likely to stay glued to their seats during the ads because they   
   don't want to miss out on anything.  Yet WRT the latter I often find the   
   "record-breaking" temperature we are experiencing, e.g., takes into account   
   only the same month & day.  It's not particularly difficult to break   
   100-year-old records under these circumstances.   
      
              Since I know very little about military strategy I'm glad Paul   
   could fill you in there.  What I tend to notice, as an English teacher, is the   
   use of terms like "played it for all it was worth" and "casting it as   
   [whatever]".  To me such language evokes images of the dramatic & performing   
   arts.  Or as people in the restaurant business advised me, "Sell the sizzle...   
   not the steak".  :-Q   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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