Lynn Thoman

What's happening there and why have they been as successful as they have been?

What do you think the impact of this war will be?

What will be the impact of all of these Iranian attacks on Arab countries in the area?

People are talking about a new Middle East.

You don't buy it.

What are they missing?

Looking ahead, what does a realistic best-case scenario look like five or ten years from now for the Middle East?

Dan, what are the three takeaways you'd like to leave the audience with today?

Dan, thank you for joining Three Takeaways today.

And thank you also for your service in government.

Thanks, Linda.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm Lynn Toman, and this is Three Takeaways.

Thanks for listening.

Love him or hate him, Elon Musk has built companies like Tesla and SpaceX that introduced a radically different way of building cars and rockets.

There's a story about Elon that I love.

Early on, he flew to Russia, hoping to buy a rocket.

The engineers there laughed at him.

On the flight home, he started breaking down the cost of a rocket, material by material.

He realized that the physical components of a rocket cost only about 2% of the total cost.