I have learnt from bitter experience that when the armchair theorists and the Whitehall generals start talking of a surgical war, it is time to run for cover.

  • -- Paddy Ashdown 阿什当

我从痛苦的经历中学到,当纸上谈兵的理论家和白厅将军们开始谈论一场外科手术式的战争时,是时候寻求掩护了。

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And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation.

这个国家的政治体制正在迅速变化,我们最好认识到这一点。大象或驴子不是年轻人所期待的。他们关注个别候选人的哲学,我认为这是一个不同的时代,不同的时代。

End times aren't supposed to be very pretty.

末日不应该很美好。