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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The article starts with the airbase thing to try to make concrete -- no pun intended -- the fact that we're going to be there for a long time, the subject of everything after the first paragraph, not least because we don't seem to have any hope of fighting or diplomacizing our way out of the quagmire. I agree that the first paragraph isn't the best way to get at this issue, for a few reasons, but I suspect that the stylistic demands of writing for a periodical like Newsweek drove that decision.
eta: fwiw, I initially copied everything in the article except for that first paragraph, and then decided I might as well include it too.
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Fine. And I'll assume that the target audience for that restatement of the profoundly obvious is the typical Newsweek reader. Could you explain how someone who takes the time to subscribe and and read a news magazine could need that explained?
And, if that mess of a first para was necessary for any reason, that explains a great deal of why "journalists" don't point out when something they are told is factually wrong.
