The last two lines are unclear for me, especially "casting it a hasty helicopters-on-the-roof moment for American power".
The last two lines are unclear for me, especially "casting it a
hasty 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.
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?
I vividly recall vision of a western journalist covering the NVA/VC infantry & tanks, storming either the US Embassy compound or the
South Vietnam government compound. It was a hellish.
I'm sure that this was something that this later journo was trying
to help call on, by way of sympathetic comparison.
IMHO CNN has exaggerated the American retreat from Syria. It seems it wanted to pique Trump, as usual. ;-)
IMHO CNN has exaggerated the American retreat from Syria. It seems
it wanted to pique Trump, as usual.
Mnn... they're in the business of selling viable commercial air
time to advertisers, too, aren't they.
OTOH, there has been back-pedling by White House underlings (Mike
Pence?), essentially modifying the reality 'on the ground' in
Stria. There will still be a US presence in the area, apparently.
They're afraid ISIS will take advantage of oil assets, for example.
The world turns...
ISIS is like Taliban - American forces can defeat it in open battle in
an Iraqi or Syrian deserts, but they can do nothing when they do a partizan war. So, the US will talk with both sooner or later.
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The rapid exit of US forces that left the Kurds
exposed was a gift to Putin: Russian journalists
roaming newly abandoned US military bases played
the moment for all it was worth, casting it a hasty
helicopters-on-the-roof moment for American power.
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The last two lines are unclear for me, especially
"casting it a hasty helicopters-on-the-roof moment
for American power".
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The rapid exit of US forces that left the Kurds exposed
was a gift to Putin: Russian journalists roaming newly
abandoned US military bases played the moment for all it
was worth, casting it a hasty helicopters-on-the-roof
moment for American power.
----- The end of the citation -----
The last two lines are unclear for me, especially "casting it a
hasty helicopters-on-the-roof moment 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
of the dramatic & performing arts. Or as people in the restaurant
business advised me, "Sell the sizzle... not the steak".: - Q
Or as people in the restaurant 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. ;-)
OTOH, there has been back-pedling by White House
underlings (Mike Pence?), essentially modifying the
reality 'on the ground' in Stria. There will still be a
US presence in the area, apparently. They're afraid
ISIS will take advantage of oil assets, for example.
They do not even consider handling them back to Siria,
their rightful owner.
They do not even consider handling them back to Siria, their
rightful owner.
Should be: "handing them over back to."
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