44 Quotes by John Pike

It's a zero sum competition among these politicians to bring home the bacon.

It's all political. You have politicians on the BRAC commission who were appointed by politicians and who were they talking to? Politicians,

It sounds like it's, unfortunately, about what you'd expect, because the things do crash.

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.

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.

It's certainly not going to be able to intercept all of them all of the time,

It's discredited the American military without any basis in fact,

They couldn't just do closures to help Republicans, ... It would be transparently political.

They are one-company towns. That's going to drive the local political activism to keep the bases open.