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...unsettling to hear that the Karbala case has stalled because pursuing those behind the attack may undo progress. As a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and a fellow member of the Long Gray Line, I found it disheartening to read about the loss of these five fine soldiers. If we agree that the situation in Iraqi villages is too dangerous for diplomats and that Army officers serving as diplomats are not properly trained, we need to come up with a better solution. With today's modern communications equipment, an Army officer in the field should be able to serve...
...goat-bloodsucking chupacabra monster. I want to live in a place where information is so pervasive that people are too smart for tall tales and Photoshop tricks, where our fake headlines are metajokes in the Onion or skewering irony on The Daily Show. It's actually a sign of progress for a society to go from inventing gods and monsters to seeking catharsis in the real life of Paris Hilton. We no longer need to conflate fiction and nonfiction to explain our world. Our fabulists aren't celebrated; Stephen Glass, JT LeRoy and James Frey are quickly caught and shamed...
...progress toward that goal remains halting, as a visit to the centralized Kabul Military Training Center (KMTC) makes clear. Many recent recruits had never been to Kabul before and found it hard to adjust to barracks life and a fully planned schedule. Some were mystified by the socks that came with their uniforms. Like soldiers around the world, they complain particularly about the food. "The cauliflower is much better at home," says Mohammad Rahim, 18, as he picks over a meal of vegetable stew, rice and bread served out on the range where he's been drilling on targeted fire...
...calibrate it to make sure its tuned and performing how you want it to," says Fellows. "Is it perfect yet? No. That's why we continue to work with it." As far as the MDA is concerned, SBX is an evolving layer in a work in progress, better to have deployed in an emergency than sitting in a Texas shipyard. "We have a system in place for the first time in our nation that will defend against simple threats from rogue nations. We continue to make the system more robust," he says...
...Coyle and others argue that the MDA's work-in-progress attitude towards its systems is a sign that the program is in over its head. "With massive projects you're always going to have something not quite right," acknowledges Victoria Samson, a research analyst at CDI. But, she says, the extent of the upgrades and repairs that SBX and a few other MDA systems have required are signs of an agency that is buying time to deliver weapons that the White House has asked for but may not yet be realistic. "It's giving [the program] a blank check...