Original artwork, not a still
when asked for his policy on the eliminating the Iraqi Army, Jan 1991
First, we're going to cut it off, then we're going to kill it.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker lays out a blunt two-stage plan: first isolate the target by cutting it off, then destroy it. The plain, almost clinical phrasing gives the strategy a chilling simplicity. It reduces a large campaign to two short steps, with no hedging about what the second one means.
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