In a reversal of the usual pattern, America is said to be pouring some cold water on heated talk in Europe, and especially in Britain, of NATO clearing Colonel Qaddafi's aircraft from Libya's skies.

在通常方式的逆转当中，美国被说成在欧洲，特别在英国，北约清除利比亚上空卡扎菲的飞机热烈会议中浇了一瓢冷水。

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Colonel Slade: Well, it doesn't take no Young America Merit scholarship to figure this one out.

中校：不需要拿美国青年优秀奖学金也能看透。

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Even after giving up an illicit nuclear-weapons programme and compensating victims of the Pan Am bombing of 1988, Colonel Qaddafi was never America's ally.

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Far from his betraying America, as the misguided and the ill-intentioned continue to charge, Colonel Lindbergh has almost single-handedly served to strengthen America's military preparedness by imparting his knowledge to our own military and by doing everything within his power to advance the cause of American aviation and to expand America's air defenses.

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Shortly after strutting about to "Go Colonel, Go Colonel" chants, the animated southerner fell from America's favor.

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