“On the surface, it’s crazy, right?” “It’s crazy down beyond the surface, too,” Dora affirmed. - Charles E. Gannon

“Did he just wink?” whispered Downing.
“If not, he developed a very timely facial tic,” Caine replied.

If the motivation was simple greed, then that was a promising target for development as an agent inside the enemy’s camp. Greed was not only a predictable impulse, but was an indicator of the dependability of the individual being suborned. It was overwhelmingly associated with profoundly self-centered egos and values.

Well, so be it. Today we only have time for the truth. Battles are won by facts and physics, not self-congratulatory ideology.