"It's not like they actually flip a switch," a Federal policy person explained about the literal nine feet of space the money spokespeople had to cross to get to the microphones. It's why Europe did "war-footing" pivot, explained a European Counterpart person. "Free markets and defense coming on line is a bit different," a man writing for the Economist magazine declared to a team of micromanagers and observers of all process regarding the Allied Forces.
"That's a labor issue," a Pointperson deflected hot topic issues being filtered into in my face. A lot of editors and writers and broadcasters had spent countless hours cramming their heads with process and form as opposed to style and function. Outside people chanted and crushed forward, forward. "That is not going to help them," an armed Security Guard remarked to what Administrators were seeing in binoculars.
"People think we stole the money," said a politician under a sort of house arrest. His chest wheeze had eased with soothing by an EMT talking him through his tip into frantic. "And nobody's been making any money in the Service sector."
A Military Advisor re-entered the fray. He stood calmly still until the people told to talk to him approached. "Add to that loss column, the catastrophic frontline wounded already today, and on this kind of scale, uh," he opened an envelope from within an envelope, "This much put up, came down," he indicated with his fingers a small amount, but...
"In the vast interior of the country far from the Sea and the big port cities like Shangai, the war threatened to go on forever [in November 1941], the Japanese winning most of the set-piece battles but the Chinese giving ground grudingly, and with their inexhaustable manpower, chewing up Japanese troops by the score in every skirmish, sometimes by the hundreds, even thousands." --James Brady in the novel Warning of War, 2002.
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