The Pentagon has now fucked up two wars in a row and wasted trillions with no career consequences for failure, and not even much Congressional interest in what went wrong. The same pattern extends to prohibitively costly dead-end weapons programs. There's no way to fail at DoD
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The fact that the Pentagon either lied to itself or lied to Congress for twenty years deserves more attention from our legislators (who just sent themselves on vacation)
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To put it another way, we could have given the Taliban billions of dollars and a fleet of American military hardware in October 2001 to get the same outcome we bought with 20 years of war. This is not a time to close ranks and heal, but a time to investigate the hell out of DoD
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in WWII and Korea the US military were under a UN command with concommitant political oversight
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The UN did not exist during WWII so the claim that the US military were subject to its command is confusing.
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We should consider Eisenhower’s warning on the subject. That we’re good at continuous conflict with no specific positive outcomes is now the feature, not the bug. That is rewarded across the board.
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Yes, because our military record after Korea has been so stellar
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