See my subsequent comment on so called aid. Most of those dollars are funneled back to us military suppliers or aren't actual cash.

Some of that aid could be in the form of vehicles and equipment, instead of just straight cash.

Have you lived in the Middle East? Jordan is roundly and fairly dismissed as a mess. It's not Lebanon or Syria, but it's also not Tunisia, Qatar or Kuwait. It's long been on the shortlist for state to collapse or for a coup.

Why give when you can charge people? Military sales to Jordan, like much of the region, are big money.

Jordan is about as cohesive as Lebanon on a day when Hezbollah shells Israel.

From what I've gathered, the burning of this pilot has really galvanized the Jordanian people against ISIL.

There's a super easy comparison to make and you keep missing it by a mile. Geography and history were not your A subjects were they?

Al Jazeera is great for news coverage and analysis. Unfortunately when they bought Al Gore's turdfest Current TV they turned into Al Jazeera in America and it's awful, so just read their website/app.

You've heard of the Kurds? They beat you to that point years ago.

Not even close, but I'll give you two points for trying.

No one really wants Syria. It's a multi-religious, multi-ethnic disaster, on par with Yugoslavia.

Jordan barely manages to stay a cohesive state on good days and its involvement in Syria is marginally more popular than its peace treaty with Israel.

You want to see depressing old aircraft, look at the KC-135.

Tyler, thanks for this amazing interview!

How many children were blinded by having to do that bead work?

The BCG has limited complications although resistance doesn't appear to be lifelong. So what about the false positive?

How are you doing on your own there?

Yeah someone hasn't been keeping up. Marin, the hoity-toity rich white liberal ppl county is much worse than conservative Orange County.

I look forward to your treatise on completely vegan, wholesome twinkies artisanally made in Brooklyn.

Because I'm exhausted by Americans who can't grasp that not giving two fucks about their weight might actually result in negative long term outcomes. I'm tired of us spending billions of dollars to remediate an issue that has easier solutions than throwing money at it.