Not that our opposition will pay heed
1) Tony (Labour) Blair:
But let's just down arms as of February 2009 and let other NATO members get on with the messy business of invading Pakistan, eh? Such a marvelous geo-political-strategic-ethical (there must be a word in German for the concept) insight that encapsulates a certain interpretation of the Canadian way.
Blair urges Canada to stand firm in Afghanistan2) Brig.-Gen. Mark Skidmore:
NATO's spine 'made in Canada,' troops toldBoth via Norman's Spectator.
1,300 Afghanistan-bound soldiers get timely pep talk from brass
But let's just down arms as of February 2009 and let other NATO members get on with the messy business of invading Pakistan, eh? Such a marvelous geo-political-strategic-ethical (there must be a word in German for the concept) insight that encapsulates a certain interpretation of the Canadian way.
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 10:06 p.m.
5 Comments:
"Such a marvelous geo-political-strategic-ethical (there must be a word in German for the concept)"
It's one of those long German nouns, "desperatisch-dumkopf-politiker-upgefucht". :-)
"Chutzpe" (with a distinctly negative connotation). Or "chutzpah" in the English version, even though "gall" comes closer to the German meaning ...
chutzpah is Hebrew and it captures their gall perfectly..
chutzpah is Hebrew
Yes, but it became chutzpe in Jiddish and was absorbed as such into German ...
ah....
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