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Hot 'n' High
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Then, once all this has settled down, the world can, once again, try and figure out what to do re Iran's nuclear programme - but maybe not quite as gums suggests - as nice as his approach appears on paper. After all "Epic Fury" seems to have turned into pretty much "Epic Waste-of-Time"!
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With "Epic Waste-of-Time" I would make it "Epic waste of time and materiel". The US has severely depleted the materiel it would need for any confrontation with a peer/near-peer adversary. And most of this stuff has long lead times.