Either this site or another thread/newsgroup I'm in pointed out the fascinating fact that, with soldiers in both Iraq and Afghanistan now, the United States is poised to offer Iran a pretty hairy two-front war... and that perhaps this was the goal all along. With those three countries under American thumbs, there isn't a country in the Middle East that Israel couldn't handle, even if they banded together.
Fascinating.
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The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must---" designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
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