2008: The Way We Were in Bullet Points

• Foggy Bottom tweet show
  
  
• Multiconfessional democracy
  
  
• Popularity contest
  
  
• Stand the test of time
  
  
• Iraqi Tax
  
  
• War Supplemental
  
  
• Stretched
  
  
• Unfunded mandates
  
  
• Stepping up to the plate
  
  
• Forward deployed
  
  
• Tired old quotes
  
  
• Prime candidate
  
  
• Expeditionary
  
  
• Directed assignment
  
  
• Global Repositioning
  
  
• Transformational Diplomacy
  
  
• Quote/Unquote
  aka: air quotes
  
  

Can it be that the world is self-selecting then?
Or has time transformed every mind?
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we? could we? should we?

\~/ Stay safe, have fun, I’ll see you next year!