The sentence that caught my attention in this article is at the end of the quote:
The official, described as having direct knowledge of an analysis done by the U.S. military and intelligence agencies of the Dec. 12 launch by the secretive Communist country, told CNN the United States and its allies were caught "off guard" even though U.S. and Japanese military vessels and missile defenses were in place to monitor it and to protect land, sea and space.So, of course, I went googling for the "dukes". Now I know. These are the same dukes that CIA fellows can't find their backsides with. Without a manual, that is.
"We had our dukes up, operationally, but we were caught off guard," the official was quoted as saying.
Cool.
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Gah not head that expression in a while.
Yeah, and consider the source too.
Must be a US Midwest/Texas thing. "Duking it out" is not uncommon.
OK. So this came from a CIA man born in Midwest then.
"Dukes up"? I know a pair of Queens beats Dukes.
Even I know that ;-)
Right, not to be found even with both dukes. It's a common affliction of the federal class. Which is why they are held in such high esteem by the rest of us.
Uhu...
Which can be taken two ways of course, either as criticism or as praise because, in many cases, we benefit from their ineffectiveness. If they were efficient we'd all be nagged to death.
He. That's another good angle. This is what they used to say about KGB too.
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