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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
Unable to understand the last sentnce
hey! here is the last paragraph of "Anniversary of a mass delusion" article, The Economist.
What I took away from it all was the depressing conviction that all of us, including those of us considered the most responsible, well-trained and serious, are entirely capable of talking ourselves into lurid fantasies; that the actions we believe constitute difficult but necessary choices may in fact be the gestures of sleepwalkers battling phantoms. This is a lesson we learn and forget over and over again. Two days after Mr Bush's warning speech, I headed off to a new foreign posting, and watched the tanks roll into Iraq on a TV in the passenger lounge of a South-East Asian airport; a few hours after that, I was arriving in Vietnam. So was the rest of America, but it didn't know it yet.
the question is how the last sentence is related to the paragraph? i can translate it but cant understand the meaning.
What I took away from it all was the depressing conviction that all of us, including those of us considered the most responsible, well-trained and serious, are entirely capable of talking ourselves into lurid fantasies; that the actions we believe constitute difficult but necessary choices may in fact be the gestures of sleepwalkers battling phantoms. This is a lesson we learn and forget over and over again. Two days after Mr Bush's warning speech, I headed off to a new foreign posting, and watched the tanks roll into Iraq on a TV in the passenger lounge of a South-East Asian airport; a few hours after that, I was arriving in Vietnam. So was the rest of America, but it didn't know it yet.
the question is how the last sentence is related to the paragraph? i can translate it but cant understand the meaning.
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Anonymous So was the rest of America, but it didn't know it yet. All of America was 'arriving in Vietnam' (that is, initiating a prolonged war in Iraq like they did before in Vietnam), but that unfortunate similarity was not yet recognized by most Americans.
- Anonymous So was the rest of America, but it didn't know it yet.
- All of America was 'arriving in Vietnam' (that is, initiating a prolonged war in Iraq like they did before in Vietnam), but that unfortunate similarity was not yet recognized by most Americans.
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AnonymousSo was the rest of America, but it didn't know it yet.All of America was 'arriving in Vietnam' (that is, initiating a prolonged war in Iraq like they did before in Vietnam), but that unfortunate similarity was not yet recognized by most Americans.
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