Having failed in their cherished goal of tossing Obama out of office, they will no longer be able to use uncertainty as an excuse for not investing their spare cash.

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We've been a bully throwing our weight around the world and tossing foreign lands and peoples aside when they were no longer of use to us.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Monica Crowley, Mightier Pen 2012

Later, as the war did not progress as advertised, I heard the secretary of defense dismiss failures that had clearly resulted from poor or nonexistent planning by tossing off snappy quips ("stuff happens") or by quoting old military axioms ("No plan survives contact with the enemy").

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