[Ads-l] aggression

[Jonathan Lighter]

This  is the word CNN prefers to "aggressiveness."  They keep referring to
the unfriendly stunt-flying by Russian pilots over American ships and
planes as "Russian aggression." This is especially startling when they say
things like, "Coming up: Russian aggression!"

I suppose it has a ring to it.  Some of us, however, were sensitized early
to a more violent sense of "Russian aggression."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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