The Bayonne Bridge project I mentioned required 47 permits from 19 different agencies
And I think the bayou was a good example.
This is called Bayon, which is outside Angkor Wat, built by Jayavarman VII.
it just becomes soldiers bayonetting wicker baskets looking for weapons and shaking nonsense talking villagers and
the lawns with rifles and bayonets and German shepherd dogs. And, you know, when you're looking, you look down the barrel of a tank, you never forget it. And they
And he roams the swamp and the bayou like-- I suppose, like a tropical Bigfoot.
So he hangs out in the bayou.
And like we were there in the bayou.
You get in boats with the bayou people, who forgot to bring flashlights, and it's pitch black in the middle of nowhere.
And we're driving down the bayou.
We're literally on the bayou.
have been shoved inside them -- sticks and bayonets and many, many penises and they have absolutely been ripped apart.
He understood you could not keep the populace down at bayonet point indefinitely.
He's sinking in a boat with environmental protesters in a Louisiana bayou.
We thought we were going to do a funny sketch element in the bayou that would be a hilarious third act to this whole story.
And a lot of this work was done in the middle of these swamps and bayous.
And Clausewitz is hit on the side of the head with a bayonet in what was probably a cavalry charge against a French infantry
our driveway. They carried rifles with bayonets shining on top of them.
I tell the story at the beginning of the book of the Bayonne Bridge was needed to be either torn down or something happened to let
Sure. So you mentioned the scenario where you're on a Louisiana bayou.
Suddenly, $15,000 worth of equipment is floating in the bayou.
Not to be violent, but because you're in the bayou, you use machetes to get through the foliage.
There is no treason like that of your own body turning against itself-- a Benedict Arnold with a bayonette in your bloodstream, a Judas kissing
That would make it memorable to me if I'd been hit on the head with a bayonet.
And all along the way there were these guns, and bayonets, like inches away from you and stuff.
when you work in in in the parts of the country in Lebanon that they control which is the southern reaches of bayout
may be important as they were in St Petersburg when we were trying to save a very important Bayou go Clan Bayou and there were a bunch of retired Coast
Suddenly, we find ourselves sleeping there, waking up at 2:00 AM, getting in the car, driving an hour to the bayou,
And so they all have camouflage on, machetes, and they're worried about a presence getting in the bayou, and so it's nerve racking.
And she saw Japanese soldiers come into their house in the middle of the night, point a bayonet and a sword at their mother,
And Napoleon walks up to the soldiers-- one of the most dramatic moments you can imagine, right?-- and he puts his chest against their bayonets.
To think about the human and financial costs, and to put that in the calculus before you reach for the sword or the bayonet to try to achieve American foreign policy goals.