Why the SysAdmin struggle matters
Monday, December 15, 2008 at 2:47AM ARTICLE: Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders, By JAMES GLANZ and T. CHRISTIAN MILLER, New York Times, December 13, 2008
A good example of why our struggle matters: there are strong forces within our ranks that prefer to keep America incompetent in this domain so as to prevent such skills and resources from being applied effectively because they know that, if such capacities are developed, they will often be put to use in this world of great demand (i.e., suffering and preventable death) and thus detract from their preferred--if fantastical--focus on high-tech great-power war.
The sad part is, their industrial greed for supplying massive platforms and weapons systems costs us the lives of American troops in the short run while blinding them--and too often us--to the long-term market-making opportunities inside the Gap.
Reports such as these are therefore crucial to revealing the great lie that was Bush-Cheney's reconstruction effort in Iraq--a cardinal sin hardly washed away by the surge's successes.
(Thanks: Gregory Kearns)
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