apart from sounding like a combination of "Fairest Isle" and a lover
explaining why it's all for the best that they leave, I was interested today
in Tony Blair's use of the word "blowback".
It's widely used as an acceptable piece of espionage rhetoric now (and even
more so, "Manchurian blowback" as a delayed and hidden reaction), but what
images does it attach itself to in your mind?
Shrapnel?
When TB said it, it sounded like something out of an action film - hero
running down a tunnel away from a fireball. . .
- edmund
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