the country is Death Valley 10 times over.
The Ballad of Bushie and Flashy
WASHINGTON
George Bush may have lost his swagger, but Harry Flashman hasn’t.
Maybe the president presiding over a quicksand empire got a vicarious thrill out of the fictional Victorian brigadier general who roamed from Chillianwalla to Isandlwana to Abyssinia at the height of the British Empire, always making conquests in love and war despite his cowardly, caddish behavior.
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