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Posts Tagged ‘chiang kai-shek’

GEORGE H.W. BUSH

The Secret History of Unleash Chiang

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

Devoted readers are still puzzling out the meaning of Paul Begala’s Sugar Land move, but they’ve busted “unleash chang” wide open. It’s not a porny-sounding family in-joke, it’s a Cold War-era family in-joke! And it’s not “chang,” it’s “Chiang,” as in Chiang Kai-Shek — the plea to “unleash Chiang” was a rallying cry for those who thought the U.S. should allow Chiang’s Nationalist forces to invade mainland China and drive the Communists from power. MORE »