[lbo-talk] Garry Wills does nice short summary of RS article

[C. G. Estabrook]

By "Bushisms" I didn't mean his solecisms - largely an act, I think, to show he 
was a 'regular guy' - but his 'war on terror' lies: the Long War equivalent to 
Cold War anti-communism.

On 6/24/10 10:30 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:26 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>> Obama is conducting an even more brutal war than Bush did, but he
>> explains it only with Bushisms: "I want the American people to
>> understand that we have a clear and focused goal - to disrupt,
>> dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to
>> prevent their return to either country in the future. That’s the goal
>> that must be achieved.”
>
> These are not "Bushishms." They're concise, grammatical English. That
> makes the liberals swoon, even though the meaning is the same brutal
> nonsense.
>
> Doug
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