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>> in the last 1 years. let's say, since the start of the war in afghanistan. >> most of them have crashed? >> that's right. >> astonishing. when you hear that, for example, when i was reporting a few days ago on the reported crash in syria, one of the things that was interesting about that was the possibility that that drone crashing might have been shot down. so does that mean that more drones will get shot down, or that u.s. piloted aircraft would get shot down? another thing that was interesting is the risk that something might -- something important might fall into enemy hands by them cap...

To never talk about it as a country. the first is that the republican budget this is year are entertaining the idea of going back to the bush/cheney practice of putting funding for the war effort into emergency line items. so we treat it as a surprise, oh, look, every year, year 14 of the war, what a surprise. we treat it as a surprise, that we had no idea it was coming. and the budget for the war effort doesn't actually factor into the real budget. it's free money. the war is, again, has become free in accounting terms because we refuse to acknowledge there is any really real cost to them. th...

Budget that is put forward by the republican leadership in both the house and the senate which may have two really interesting consequences for what we're doing on national security and the great lengths we go to to never talk about it as a country. the first is that the republican budgets are entertaining the idea of going back to the bush/cheney practice of putting funding for the war effort into emergency line items. so we treat it as a surprise oh, look every year year 14 of the war, what a surprise. we treat it as a surprise that we had no idea it was coming. and the budget for the war ef...

We had no idea it was coming. and the budget for the war effort doesn't actually factor into the real budget. it's free money. the war is, again, has become free in accounting terms because we refuse to acknowledge there is really any cost to them. there's also one really specific line item in the pentagon's budget request this year, which popped out of the "washington post" today like a hell fire missile. that is the pentagon has requested an extra $1 billion this year, specifically for reaper drones. because this year they are asking to buy double the number of reaper drones that they bought...