All wars are different. But they have similarities, especially those close in time…. How are things similar to a war up on the steppes of Eastern Europe to a war in the mountains of the Middle East?
There have been more comfortable trips to Italy. The flight was delayed for over an hour in which repairmen fixed some problem in the toilet. They could have simply locked up the one of many facilities, but since the flight was full of young female travelers, who absolutely must hear the sound of running water at least once in every hour, they made the right decision.
Don’t you know there’s a war on, as the reprimand went in the last big one. Detached from reality though I am by disposition, I ought to acknowledge that yes, something like a war is going on there, in fact more than one.
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page is neocon and obsessively pro-war. They pushed the Iran War as much as any publication.
“War reveals” is my guiding insight for the Iran War. Let’s see what we have discovered the past week.
First, although LL only presents two tenses, there are in fact four tenses of the subjunctive, just as there were in Latin. In addition to present and Passato Rimoto, there are also:
Conditional sentences are not restricted to clauses of the “If/…then” type. The “if clause” may be replaced by either a relative clause or a participial construction.
What goes by the name of ‘The Right’ in contemporary British life has been in a state of outrage, confected or otherwise.
The one person in America, after President Trump, most identified with “no regime-change wars” is Tulsi Gabbard. Now that Trump has launched the ultimate regime-change war, Tulsi needs to resign in protest.
With the threat, looming over our heads, that a film version of the Odyssey is soon to be released
