The real costs of the war have been ignored in the flag-waving of recent months.

战争的真正代价在近几个月里所表现出的强烈民族情绪中被忽略了。

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He suggested that Mr Romney favoured a timetable forending the war in Iraqand “waving a white flag of surrender”.

他提出罗姆尼赞成制定从伊拉克撤军的时间表并“挥舞着投降的白旗”。

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When that happened, the losing group burned the flag of the winning group and raided their camp; the two groups were on the verge of declaring all-out war on each other.

结果公布时，失败一方烧掉了获胜一方的旗帜，袭击了对方的营地。两个小组处于全面宣战的边缘。

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After all,the Confederate secretary of war had declared that the Confederate flag would fly over the Capitol building before the first of May.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

The photograph shows six men and an American flag during a battle in World War Two.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

The Northern Ireland Conservative Party has previously expressed concern that putting a union flag 356 days a year on the Belfast war memorial could "diminish the flag and debase and politicise a place of remembrance".

BBC: Northern Ireland

Others, such as the Northern Ireland Conservative Party, have expressed concern that putting a union flag 356 days a year on the Belfast war memorial could "diminish the flag and debase and politicise a place of remembrance".

BBC: Northern Ireland

So rather than being a formidable barrage, Mr Brown's double declaration of war looks instead like a white flag: an admission that he urgently needs to shore up Labour's core vote.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot