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They saw the Sudanese gestures toward cooperating as "tactical retreats" aimed at deceiving Washington in hopes of having sanctions removed.
Funniest tidbit: Brown loathed Clinton's touchy-feely Cabinet retreats, calling them "moongazing."
In the end, the narrator, Ben, retreats into generic memory-play mode: "If I'd known things would no longer be, I'd have tried harder to remember them."
During one of history’s greatest strategic retreats, one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), was chosen as party leader.
And to Kettle's warning, issued the same day, that the Clinton presidency may be seen by future historians "as a huge historic disappointment consisting mainly of strategic retreats in a right-wing era and as a catastrophic personal let-down for a generation of American liberals," the magazine adds, "And for a certain British liberal hack, too?"