It is merely a place where soldiers are sent by politicians to pretend to win, even as they die.
Was the military derelict in its duty when it promised, then pretended, to win the war, or did arrogant civilians order the military into battle with one hand tied and no clear goals?
At the same time, they believed that their massive street presence would make rigging the election impossible: how could the incumbent even pretend to win in the face of such numbers?
But that support could not last, and when Mr. Milosevic himself decided to call an early election for September, the only real question was whether he would be able to steal enough votes to pretend to win, and whether the Serbs would stand up to defend their votes.
Nearly a week after the NFL awarded the 2021 Super Bowl hosting privileges to Inglewood, as I predicted it would do in my recent CityWatchLA.com article, Garcetti and the City Hall public relations machine is still taking an awkward social media "victory" lap pretending to have won something it lost.
View on Instagram Here is a photograph of me in an Eagles uniform in 1967, age eight, pretending to catch the winning touchdown while my father talks on a telephone behind me.
Here is a photograph of me in an Eagles uniform in 1967, age eight, pretending to catch the winning touchdown while my father talks on a telephone behind me.
Roberto Madrazo, last year's losing presidential candidate who was stripped of his first-place title in the age-55 category of the Berlin Marathon this week after judges said he took a shortcut, said in a statement that he had never pretended to have won and had only gone to the finish line to collect his clothes after he hurt himself.
"In Defeat, Clinton Graciously Pretends to Win," mocked a headline in the Washington Post.
But I could win by pretending to have a pistol.
