That one sentence summed up the misplaced priorities of an administration that profoundly lost its way in the fight against al Qaeda.
Brierley currently lives in Hobart, Tasmania, and his story, which was a media sensation at home, is a singular one: A native of India who got profoundly lost and separated from his family as a 5-year-old child, he was adopted by an Australian couple but was able, a quarter of a century later, to use Google Earth to find and reunite with his birth mother.
They were profoundly malnourished, lost significant amounts of weight and developed pressure ulcers that did not heal and were not treated.
Here was a soul who had lived so fully, traveled the world so extensively, lived like a millionaire and been homeless, loved so deeply and lost so profoundly, I could only hope to see what wisdom might be garnered by our meeting.
Miami's players are used to the backlash, but it is James who evokes the most hostility, and it was James who, after a profoundly disappointing series, lost his cool facade.
Even more profoundly, we have lost sight of how the very concept of the "state" is a western construct, enshrined in the treaty of Westphalia in 1648 to bring to an end the 30 years war in Europe.
In a statement, a family friend said it was difficult to describe "how much Griffin means to all of us and how profoundly we feel lost without him".
Something very similar has happened in Ireland; in countries with a history of emigration, these developments, and the thought that a whole generation of young people will be lost, are profoundly upsetting.
In fact, he's inadvertently inspired a genuinely remarkable album: self-obsessed but completely compelling, profoundly discomforting but beautiful, lost in its own fathomless personal misery, but warm, funny and wise.
Unfortunately for us and the world, this simple but profoundly important truth is lost on virtually all economists and central bankers today.
This observation fits well with the concept that neurotransmitter release from O2-sensitive glomus cells (lost or profoundly impaired in the TH-VHLKO mice) is the signal that triggers the proliferation of progenitor cells to bring about CB growth during exposure to hypoxia (Platero-Luengo et al, 2014).
