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Thursday, 30 November 2006
Ralph Peters then goes on to say:
There is a genuine problem here: The ever-accelerating pace of change since the end of the Cold War has left us with an inadequate vocabulary. Words literally fail us. We don't know what to call things. No military lexicon offers a useful term to describe the situation in Iraq.
Sorry, Ralph, words (and therefore the concepts they embody) are failing you, not us.
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Posted on 11/30/2006 8:02 AM by Rebecca Bynum
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30 Nov 2006
Robert Bove
Exactly, Rebecca. Who is "we"? Whose military lexicon? He might start with the Greeks, then Caesar in Gaul, then Grant, Sherman, Lee, Churhcill. Peters reaches bottom, digs.
Robert Bove
Exactly, Rebecca. Who is "we"? Whose military lexicon? He might start with the Greeks, then Caesar in Gaul, then Grant, Sherman, Lee, Churhcill. Peters reaches bottom, digs.
