We Didn't Shoot the Balloon Down

We shot the balloon. We did not shoot the balloon down because the waters were too cold in Alaska and we wouldn't have been able to retrieve it. All of those are mutually exclusive and they all are ad hoc. They were produced each time somebody rejected one of those exegesis, exegesis,. Every time somebody said, well, you don't mean you can't shoot something. Down and have ships ready to pick it up as it falls and watch it. That's scary because it dovetails into two parallel trains of thought. The first is that we actually are vulnerable and the second is we project the aura of vulnerability ... Let's go back to are we vulnerable? Well