John Pike
John Pike
easy knew money
We knew it would be easy money if we could find a place.
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We're the sole remaining superpower, the only country that's sent people to the moon. If the Chinese sent people to the moon they'd take us down a notch.
meeting past
There are a lot of politics. Some on the panel are past politicians who have been meeting with politicians.
sounds
It sounds like it's, unfortunately, about what you'd expect, because the things do crash.
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It's somewhere between irrelevant and counterproductive. Since the Iraqi army disintegrated, the weapon of choice has become a sniper. That's the ultimate in precision firepower.
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They couldn't just do closures to help Republicans, ... It would be transparently political.
activism bases drive local political
They are one-company towns. That's going to drive the local political activism to keep the bases open.
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It's certainly not going to be able to intercept all of them all of the time. If we're talking about incoming nuclear missiles, that imperfect defense is going to simply be a false sense of security.
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It's certainly not going to be able to intercept all of them all of the time,
basis military
It's discredited the American military without any basis in fact,
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It's a zero sum competition among these politicians to bring home the bacon.
appointed commission talking
It's all political. You have politicians on the BRAC commission who were appointed by politicians and who were they talking to? Politicians,
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The fact that the government authorized the release of this imagery I think indicates that the Defense Department decided that the release of this imagery was not going to jeopardize the troops.
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They had all the radios in the world. They had complete interoperability. That was not a hardware problem. That was a people and procedure problem.