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Sort of like mating elephants at the zoo. Cast of thousands, everybody watching, critiquing and/or offering suggestions, two "participants" doing all the work, and waiting (at least) two years to see the results. I wish a mechanism existed for the Regiment to see what the G8 is doing on our behalf. Unfortunately - as you pointed out - it'll all be OBE before ODAs ever get to use it. If DH is your (former) CWO thanks for giving him up. We think he'll be the perfect man for the mission.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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