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Quote of the day: On the lingering habits of a retired bomb sniffing military dog

War dog fever continues-two segments on network news Monday. My favorite comment came on ABC Nightly News from Tiffany Touchstone, who adopted Bagger, a retired bomb sniffing canine: "I don’t know if we’ll ever get the training out of him. I mean, he searches the kids’ backpacks and our luggage when we travel out of ...

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images

War dog fever continues-two segments on network news Monday. My favorite comment came on ABC Nightly News from Tiffany Touchstone, who adopted Bagger, a retired bomb sniffing canine: "I don't know if we'll ever get the training out of him. I mean, he searches the kids' backpacks and our luggage when we travel out of town." And like many old soldiers, he also flinches when he hears gunfire on television.

War dog fever continues-two segments on network news Monday. My favorite comment came on ABC Nightly News from Tiffany Touchstone, who adopted Bagger, a retired bomb sniffing canine: "I don’t know if we’ll ever get the training out of him. I mean, he searches the kids’ backpacks and our luggage when we travel out of town." And like many old soldiers, he also flinches when he hears gunfire on television.

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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