Subj : unclear
To   : Paul Quinn
From : Alexander Koryagin
Date : Fri Oct 25 2019 10:16:04

Hi, Paul Quinn!
I read your message from 25.10.2019 09:55

 AK>> The last two lines are unclear for me, especially "casting it a
 AK>> hasty helicopters-on-the-roof moment for American power".

 PQ> It's wonderful journalistic jingoism at play again. It's a simile.
 PQ> A reference to some televised scenes of American personnel &
 PQ> equipment making many hasty exits from built-up areas in Vietnam.
 PQ> If the writer had worded the by-line "... it as a hasty..." you
 PQ> 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?

Bye, Paul!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2019

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