This is no surprise to anyone: Nearly 90 percent of Army National Guard units in the United States are rated “not ready” — largely as a result of shortfalls in billions of dollars’ worth of equipment — jeopardizing their capability to respond to crises at home and abroad, according to a congressional commission that released …
Archives for March 2007
Do The WaPo Editors Read Balloon Juice?
*** WARNING- Orgy of Self Promotion Follows *** You be the judge: YESTERDAY THE Post reported that Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley heard years ago from a veterans advocate and even a member of Congress that outpatient care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was distressingly squalid and disorganized. That commander proceeded to do little, …
Cognitive Dissonance at Walter Reed
Two stories. First, a firing in the Walter Reed story: The Army said Thursday that the two-star general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been relieved of command following disclosures about inadequate treatment of wounded soldiers. Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman, who was commanding general of the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command …
Paging George Soros
Yikes. From Josh Marshall: Uh-oh. DC Madam “considering” selling 13 years of her service’s itemized phone records to the highest bidder to raise money for her legal defense fund. Late Update: Now the Madam’s lawyer tells us this: “The records identify the telephone number of the customer. Since 2000, the customers and the independent contractor …
The Straight Talk Express to Nowhere
There are a lot of people who are fans of John McCain. I am not one of them. While McCain’s recent career has shown flickers of sanity, and he has occasionally pleased me by extending a middle finger to the religious right, on the big issues, he has been wrong over and over and over …
Screwing The Pooch On North Korea
When the Bush administration pulled out of the Agreed Framework with North Korea in 2002, the main complaint was that the DPRK had a clandestine program to enrich uranium on top of its well-known and nearly bomb-ready plutonium work. As an indisputable result of our pullout North Korea unfroze its plutonium activities and proceeded by …