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Cancel any time, tease and sees apply. Hello and welcome to episode 5 of rational security until we run out of fuel and bullets.

I'm Shane Harris of The Daily Beast. Our title this week is of course a reference to a speech that King Abdullah of Jordan made before the U.S. Congress this week in which she promised to crush ISIS and fight until we run

out of fuel and bullets. Jordan's obviously been in the news a lot this week and we're

going to talk about that. I'm joined as always by my friends Ben Wittis of the Brookings Institution a noted

group collector.

Yeah I'm not sure having one group count the only one I, so you are a noted root collector.

Well, my former and current lawfare contributor and sometime co-author Jane Chong saw that I had tweeted from Washington and Lee Law School where we saw

the Grute courtroom, saw I had tweeted I am Grute and so sent me a little baby dancing Grut.

And what is it Grut for those of us who have like me who have never seen this little monster before?

Well, it's a thing from the guardians of the galaxy.

Oh, that's what that is.

And all it says is I am Grut.

Okay, this entire joke was lost on me.

I just pretended that I knew what we're talking about.

No, I didn't want to seem left out.

You're not a comic book fan? No, but I'm a huge Chris Pratt man. There you go.

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