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To: Brumar89 who wrote (60788)	12/10/2002 5:55:28 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I had trouble understanding what you were talking about, until I realized that you thought I was referring to Afghanistan. You referred to our intervention in Afghanistan as being for no real reason in your post... ("invade another sovereign country preemptively and for no real reason, kill thousands of civilians a la Afghan" I was referring to the imminent invasion of Iraq. "a la Afghan" means "as in Afghanistan", or "in Afghanistan style". It does not mean "in Afghanistan". I am sorry for this confusion - it is so widely used in Europe in quite a few languages that I did not realized it could be misunderstood by Americans. For example: recipesource.com ... a dish cooked "a la Milanaise" - not in Milan, but in Milan style.