What does Milton do -- this is what I see as our project, our interpretive project, as we approach this poem -what does Milton do to get himself unstuck from this seat of anxious anticipation? That's the project.
France, of course, has long been the bogeyman of the Atlantic alliance, always anxious to stake its claim to a seat at the top table and yet always seen as inevitably and irritatingly slow to endorse American-led initiatives.