‘Making excuses in the future pluperfect tense’
Condoleeza Rice on British TV: “History will tell, because you can never tell…. Things that look like brilliant strategy in the immediate period look like terribly mistaken strategies, and
ones that at the time look like mistakes later turn out to have been exactly the right thing to do.”
Jon Stewart: “Let me get this straight. Our mistakes ... could have turned out to have had been the right thing to do. You’re making excuses in the future pluperfect tense.”
Posted by Nathan Bierma on 04/15 at 01:53 PM
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