Better Your Life (Collection)

Chapter 2. A New Way of Thinking

Jonathan Malloch made numerous calls and sat down several times with the extraction team of Glenn Susskind and Gary White as they scrutinized lists, charts, and cost sheets to determine the feasibility and best ways of transporting Amenah to Nashville. As Gary put it, “You don’t just hop on a plane and run over to Iraq and bring a girl back.” There were a lot of moving parts to consider, so they went to work, identifying the most crucial questions: Could the child fly, did they have the logistic ability to get from the Iraq border to Amman, what type of air transportation was needed (e.g., air ambulance), what type of transportation was possible given the costs, how would they transport their medical equipment ...