Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Oh, the use of the Passive Form in the Chronicle.
Carolyn Lochhead writes:
The escape ... Osama Bin Laden in [Tora Bora] battle has never received the attention it should. Committee chairman John Kerry tried to make the point in his failed presidential bid against former President George W. Bush but it never caught fire,...
Nevertheless, the circumstances of the Tora Bora failure surely will go down as one of the great bungles in U.S. foreign policy and military history, and the official committee report, like an earlier report on the 9/11 attacks, is well written, well-researched, and well worth reading.
Gee, I wonder why Kerry's attempt to make the point during his campaign against George Bush fizzled. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, covering that campaign, Carolyn Lochhead showed no interest in it?
Because, after all, it was a national security issue and that had to take a backseat to whether or not John Kerry looked French and elitist and ordered green tea in a restaurant.
So "it never caught fire" is just the passive form of "I could not care less."
The escape ... Osama Bin Laden in [Tora Bora] battle has never received the attention it should. Committee chairman John Kerry tried to make the point in his failed presidential bid against former President George W. Bush but it never caught fire,...
Nevertheless, the circumstances of the Tora Bora failure surely will go down as one of the great bungles in U.S. foreign policy and military history, and the official committee report, like an earlier report on the 9/11 attacks, is well written, well-researched, and well worth reading.
Gee, I wonder why Kerry's attempt to make the point during his campaign against George Bush fizzled. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, covering that campaign, Carolyn Lochhead showed no interest in it?
Because, after all, it was a national security issue and that had to take a backseat to whether or not John Kerry looked French and elitist and ordered green tea in a restaurant.
So "it never caught fire" is just the passive form of "I could not care less."
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