Comments on: Time for more Advance Market Commitments? http://www.owen.org/blog/2565 Thoughts on development and beyond Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: just commenting http://www.owen.org/blog/2565/comment-page-1#comment-4963 just commenting Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:34:37 +0000 http://www.owen.org/?p=2565#comment-4963 You need to do your homework. The US has not PUBLICLY played its cards. But that money was committed by name, Advance Market Commitments, in a military spending bill. Would you like the number for the legislation or do you plan to do the work yourself? <em>Owen replies: Please: do tell. Isn't the point of an Advance Market Commitment that you do play your cards publicly?</em> You need to do your homework. The US has not PUBLICLY played its cards. But that money was committed by name, Advance Market Commitments, in a military spending bill. Would you like the number for the legislation or do you plan to do the work yourself?

Owen replies: Please: do tell.

Isn’t the point of an Advance Market Commitment that you do play your cards publicly?

]]> By: just commenting http://www.owen.org/blog/2565/comment-page-1#comment-4558 just commenting Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:30:52 +0000 http://www.owen.org/?p=2565#comment-4558 How can you say the U.S. stood aside on the first AMC when Obama, Emanuel, Bayh and Lugar sponsored legislation committing the U.S. to millions of dollars for AMCs in 2005? Maybe you failed to notice it because it was hidden in the middle of a military funding bill that was quickly passed to continue the fight in Iraq... <em>Owen replies: The US did not, and has not, participated in the AMC.</em> How can you say the U.S. stood aside on the first AMC when Obama, Emanuel, Bayh and Lugar sponsored legislation committing the U.S. to millions of dollars for AMCs in 2005? Maybe you failed to notice it because it was hidden in the middle of a military funding bill that was quickly passed to continue the fight in Iraq…

Owen replies: The US did not, and has not, participated in the AMC.

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