This could address a lot of issues:
'Trafficking in the standard array of postmodernist tropes -- irony,
paradox, bricolage, and sly self-referential jokes -- [the work] was
all about subverting conventions. Yet where it pretended to speak most
authoritatively, it managed to say next to nothing.'
As it turns out, this is Andrew Bacevich's comment on General David
Petraeus's manual on counterinsurgency, that supposedly changed the
way the War on Terror would be fought after 2008.
Hmmnn....
Doug
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