John Pike
John Pike
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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.
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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've hired a lot of new people. You know they are not all going to be adequately trained, that's a fact of life.
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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,
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It's discredited the American military without any basis in fact,
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They couldn't just do closures to help Republicans, ... It would be transparently political.
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They are one-company towns. That's going to drive the local political activism to keep the bases open.
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The problem for the enemy is that computer security vulnerabilities will almost certainly prove fleeting and unpredictable,
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We're supposed to be in winter, but it doesn't look like any winter weather is coming.
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To make sure there is some money left over at the end of the year, they're going to cut costs. A good place to cut costs is security.
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What are you training for? To kill insurgents.
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There's some interest here in retrofitting barns. Most farms in Southern Illinois don't have a lot of on-farm storage. And the local elevators and terminal elevators are not set up to hold grain. They have to move it out.
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Is the problem that they are only just now beginning to understand how serious the damage was? Did they not have a contingency for a disaster of this magnitude?