On Oct 28, 2007, at 10:41 AM, authfriend wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 27, 2007, at 8:08 PM, Angela Mailander wrote: > > > I've lived through carpet bombing. It was called saturation > > bombing back then. I was using the term as a synecdoche. a > > That's how I got what you said, it wasn't about the oil wells > per se, but the collective idea of what that implied and on > another level symbolic image to imply wide devastation -- am I > getting that right? Nope. The context was specifically oil wells--how the Chinese would react if we bombed Iran's oil wells, given that Iran is a major source of oil for the Chinese.
That's one take, but it really depends on what Angela's intent was. Maybe it was about bombing oil wells very specifically. I assumed what I said as a possible interpretation, having listened to A. for a couple of years.
