"It is clear that the Trump administration doesn't have the same reticence that the Obama administration did in terms of putting more boots on the ground, especially conventional troops, as opposed to special operations troops."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Andrew Exum

#Special Quotes #Term Quotes

“When I read the pilot for Married with Children, it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. Hed come home from work, and the wife would maybe say I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway. And he would say Fine, whats for dinner?”
“History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.”
“As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.”
“When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”

Source : "Remembering Nora Ephron". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 27, 2012.
“Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.”
“One of things that surprised me when I was in Iran was to find out that the country finances seven times as many sex change operations as the entire European Union. And the reason for that is because Ayatollah Khomeini himself, in the early 1960s, in the same time that he was developing this other idea of an Islamic state, also hit upon the idea that if a person is born into the wrong sex, it was entirely proper for them to change sex.”
“I don't think he likes girls", I said. "Or boys. Look at the horror on his face. He doesn't look like a people person.”
“When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.”

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