[lbo-talk] boring...

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun May 16 08:33:46 PDT 2004


Further to Carl Remick's critique of the military mind, there's this bit from Hersh's latest. Seems the gung-ho civilian is a far scarier breed:


>The former senior intelligence official blamed hubris for the Abu
>Ghraib disaster. "There's nothing more exhilarating for a pissant
>Pentagon civilian than dealing with an important national security
>issue without dealing with military planners, who are always worried
>about risk," he told me. "What could be more boring than needing the
>cooperation of logistical planners?"



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