As Everett Dirksen immortally said, a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.
That it is always the defeated party in a conflict that has to pay retribution to the victor is a historical generalization that really holds up.
Secretary Rubio? Hello, Mister Secretary? Are you there? Hello?
Little Marco seems to have joined Representative Tom Kean in his hidey-hole. When a war of profound global impact is being ended by negotiations the Secretary of State usually gets involved. This guy wants no part of its stink on him
And once the US Navy redeploys, do you think Taco Trump. who wants to "put this all behind us," will send them back to the Strait? The world will have to live with his Big Blunder for years and years to come.
Yes, although titles and names both have ways of going missing.
All I can say is, Thomas Merton and Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy and J. F. Powers wept. And over there sneering are Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh. Meanwhile Georges Bernanos is doing something French, difficult to describe.
Marcel who? WAR and what? Bought this 1207-page book for $17 in trade at Old Books in Hudson, NY. Felt it was time for me to make good on my Thomas Mann completist pretentions. Back to you in . . . a while with my findings.
Oops. You tell the truth just one time and damned if it doesn't come back to bite you.
Good to know the "human" form our eventual Alien Overlords will be taking.
We know he is an ahistorical idiot. But honest to God, was there no one on his staff willing or able to explain, "Mr. President, the optics of signing that Iran agreement at Versailles are very bad."
A Big Mac-eating, Diet Coke-swilling surrender monkey.
