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Super Bowl, Shmooper Bowl with Victor Davis Hanson | GoodFellows: John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster | Hoover Institution

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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Do You Know What We Did or Didn't?

I think because a Pentagon is like the most risk-verse organization or government sometimes I mean I think that's part of it you know. Joe Biden today blamed the Pentagon he basically said he had ordered this earlier and he got a recommendation not to shoot it down. Well we waited till it took traverse the whole U.S. transmitting back whatever its information was to China on the way so that it just does not make any sense. We don't have a net to catch it. It's just a spectacular fashion but if it mattered we would have that net. If it takes a toothpick use a baseball bat, as General Ernest Harmon from World War II told us.

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