Loren Thompson
Loren Thompson
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We're in no rush to bomb Iran. The fact that we have bombing plans on the shelf for dealing with Iran is not new because we've been generating those plans for a quarter-century. That's what planners do.
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There is a point beyond which it isn't practical to expect so many different things from the same group of people.
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He has always taken the role of a controversial visionary whose job is to articulate a new path forward to people who don't want hear it.
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They're (the Emirates) not going to retaliate because they need us. Who is going to protect that little outpost of modernity on the Arabian Peninsula if it isn't us?
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What you see in these examples is that the Nunn-McCurdy cost breaches cover a lot of diversity in terms of causes and consequences. To punish programs equally for such different difficulties is not constructive.