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In last week’s Echo Jason van Tol poses the question as to what is the threat posed by the drumming circle? Thanks for asking Jason  –  I can only speak for myself, but I’m a very quiet person, live in a very quiet place by choice, and object strongly to having to listen to other people’s noise/music when I’m at home. The problem with drums is that, unless they are struck very gently, the sound they make travels for quite a distance, under the right conditions – more than a kilometre. The sound of a drum has quite a different beat to the beat of my heart and my preferre...

These are risky operations by their very nature, they're dangerous, uncertain. frankly, in my view, if jim mattis looked at this thing and said this is worth the risk and this is worth the effort to try to capture a very significant al qaeda leader in yemen, then this is a man who's not looking at this in a frivolous or trivial or politicized way. you know, regardless of what the president's level of actual engagement on this was, these operations are incredibly dangerous. they're incredibly risky. and things do go wrong and can go wrong. we don't know a lot about it yet. there may be things w...

They're incredibly risky. and things do go wrong and can go wrong. we don't know a lot about it yet. there may be things we find out that it was rushed or pushed. we don't know any of that. and i think we should sort of reserve judgment on the final elements of that until the end. but i will say, and to echo jason, again, this is a president who has ignored and blown off a lot of intelligence briefings. these should be something that is a daily part of his are ritual. he should be doing a lot more -- getting a lot more intelligence briefings and watching a lot less cable tv every morning. >> r...