Sarah Paine
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Daleks today are allies.
And start by apologizing to them.
That would be step one.
I can't see that ever happening.
But yeah, we have all these international organizations use them to
We're in the process of firing the State Department.
I believe when WikiLeaks leaked a lot of their memos and things and the New York Times was reporting on it, I believe what it revealed is incredibly accurate reporting of whatever place they were reporting.
assigned to and describing things in really accurate detail that would enable U.S.
policymakers then to make an accurate assessment and determine to do what's next.
But that's not what we're doing.
Well, I'm technically wasn't allowed to read them because they were classified and I was working for the Navy.
So I didn't go out of my way to read them, but I'm reading the New York Times and other things that's reporting on them.
And from what's there, you just see it's accurate.
And it's in-depth reporting.
And of course, we're angry that they're all out there because it's revealing who's talking to whom and whatever.
But what it showed is a very professional staff.
And I don't know why we got some ax to grind with the State Department.
It's also really tiny.
Working at the War College on student solutions to the world crisis.
world's problems they would always say quadruple the state department's budget because it's really tiny compared to the military budget because there's an understanding that um what much of the u.s government does if it's doing what it's supposed to is it's preventing catastrophes so if you're sending your state department out there you're trying to prevent oh like uh an indo-pakistani nuclear war and we've sent diplomats at different times to prevent that from happening