So, long and long, the sea dry rotten with stone, the more is vulnerable to a mirage, busy dying after is the boundless boundless desert.

那么，天长与地久，海枯与石烂，更加只是不堪一击的海市蜃楼，繁华凋零后便是漫漫无际的荒漠。

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It is hard to imagine that McChrystal's decision to open his doors to Rolling Stone was a calculated move to blow the lid off of the mirage of strategic competence surrounding the "good war" in Afghanistan.

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