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Kook j Posted 14 years ago
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The military option was never officially taken off the table. At least, that's what U.S. officials always said. But the emphasis was on the implausibility of a military strike. "Another war in the Middle East is the last thing we need," Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote in 2008. It would be "disastrous on a number of levels."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2004120,00.html#ixzz1oTYAVzZQ
Is it ok to understand that 'but' emphasize the sentence? The sentence doesn't seem to contradict the earlier sentence.
The military option was never officially taken off the table. At least, that's what U.S. officials always said. But the emphasis was on the implausibility of a military strike. "Another war in the Middle East is the last thing we need," Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote in 2008. It would be "disastrous on a number of levels."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2004120,00.html#ixzz1oTYAVzZQ
Is it ok to understand that 'but' emphasize the sentence? The sentence doesn't seem to contradict the earlier sentence.
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but the emphasis was on the implausibility of a military strike.
- but the emphasis was on the implausibility of a military strike.
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It qualifies the mood of the first sentence:
The military option was never officially taken off the table....but the emphasis was on the implausibility of a military strike.
The military option was never officially taken off the table....but the emphasis was on the implausibility of a military strike.
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