No need. I've met a hundred guys like him in the Marines.
MMimi
He's an ops guy. He spent a little too much time outside the wire. And he's naturally suspicious of analysts like me, who sit indoors with highlighters, looking for odd discrepancies and patterns.
Or professors who spend their day doing close readings of obscure texts. So you're an interrogator, too, yeah?
MMimi
Yeah, it's not as edgy as it sounds. You just get them in a room and establish a rapport and talk and talk and talk until some little detail reveals what's really going on.
What happened to your argument about losing strategic advantage? I mean, how do you propose to just keep the transfer of 243 people from an Italian naval vessel to an American one out of the news?
Okay, so remind them that the asylum vetting process is so thorough it takes a minimum of two years. Hell, remind them what the plaque on the Statue of Liberty says. But only if they get shirty with you, okay?
--instead of smearing them a potential Communist sleeper agents sent to destroy our way of life. But, hell, your boat made it here; what do you care, right?
True. You can still ban these 243 refugees, specifically. But when the president pledged to accept 20,000 Libyans, he also will have the authority to place them in any state he sees fit. For instance, they might feel right at home in the dry desert climate of your great state. And they'll have you to thank. Well, some of your constituents might not see it that way. But then again, one of those young refugees could grow up to become a United States senator. And isn't that what America's all about?
It's just... college is supposed to be my thing, and if we show up in a motorcade with diplomatic security and you and Blake constantly on the phone...
I know, total bummer. Which is why I got us down to two cars, and I asked Blake specifically to tell the school not to make a fuss about anything. Because I get it, Ali, you want to be normal, but that goes for me, too, you know. And this is a really big deal, and I don't want to miss out on it, and I really want to come.
Mm. Thank you. Uh, also, I took the liberty of highlighting various students' online reviews of professors at Rafferty College. The debate professor is wonderfully polarizing.
