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   Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from 27.10.2019 00:56   
      
    AK>>  -----Beginning of the citation-----   
    AK>> The rapid exit of US forces that left the Kurds exposed   
    AK>> was a gift to Putin: Russian journalists roaming newly   
    AK>> abandoned US military bases played the moment for all it   
    AK>> was worth, casting it a hasty helicopters-on-the-roof   
    AK>> moment for American power.   
    AK>>  ----- The end of the citation -----   
      
    AK>> The last two lines are unclear for me, especially "casting it a   
    AK>> hasty helicopters-on-the-roof moment for American power".   
      
    AH> I agree with you that various journalists... regardless of who   
    AH> their employers are, BTW... may have "exaggerated the American   
    AH> retreat". And I agree with Paul that where he & I come from the   
    AH> majority of TV journalists seem to be "in the business of selling   
    AH> viable commercial air time to advertisers". If the upcoming news or   
    AH> weather report sounds quite dramatic, folks are more likely to stay   
    AH> glued to their seats during the ads because they don't want to miss   
      
    AH> of the dramatic & performing arts. Or as people in the restaurant   
    AH> business advised me, "Sell the sizzle... not the steak".: - Q   
      
   Or, IMHO better, "Sell the smell... not the steak". They say, modern chemists   
   can forge the smell of any food. Now in Russia we even have a new law   
   according to which the shops must tell if such technology had been used for a   
   particular product. Now I can see in the shops "cake with chocolate taste",   
   "cake with strawberry taste" etc. ;-)   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2019   
      
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