Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Waiting for the Coup
Aljazeera.Net is running a story with the tag line: "General: US Army Reserve in trouble." According to Aljazeera, a report by the the Reserve's head Lt. General James Helmly conlcludes, "The US Army Reserve is degenerating into a broken force due to dysfunctional military policies." Helmly is quoted as writing, “I do not wish to sound alarmist. I do wish to send a clear, distinctive signal of deepening concern.” Helmly continued, warning of the "inability – under current policies, procedures and practices governing mobilisation, training and reserve component manpower management – to meet mission requirements for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Sounds like four years of Georgie & Co. have managed to eviscerate nearly every part of the U.S. government. I'm sure the budget cuts that are looming will do little to help the Army Reserve. Based on the past performance of Bush and the Radical Republicans, it is unlikely that anything meaningful will be done to solve the very real problems we are facing. Things could get ugly once the Radical Republicans slash Social Security, fail to give the military the money it needs to support veterans, and continue to send them on fool's errands. Of course, we can expect Rove & Co. to lay the blame for all of it on Clinton or maybe even FDR--after all, according to Karl Rove's revisionist history, the New Deal was the begining of the end of America's "greatness."
Aljazeera.Net is running a story with the tag line: "General: US Army Reserve in trouble." According to Aljazeera, a report by the the Reserve's head Lt. General James Helmly conlcludes, "The US Army Reserve is degenerating into a broken force due to dysfunctional military policies." Helmly is quoted as writing, “I do not wish to sound alarmist. I do wish to send a clear, distinctive signal of deepening concern.” Helmly continued, warning of the "inability – under current policies, procedures and practices governing mobilisation, training and reserve component manpower management – to meet mission requirements for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Sounds like four years of Georgie & Co. have managed to eviscerate nearly every part of the U.S. government. I'm sure the budget cuts that are looming will do little to help the Army Reserve. Based on the past performance of Bush and the Radical Republicans, it is unlikely that anything meaningful will be done to solve the very real problems we are facing. Things could get ugly once the Radical Republicans slash Social Security, fail to give the military the money it needs to support veterans, and continue to send them on fool's errands. Of course, we can expect Rove & Co. to lay the blame for all of it on Clinton or maybe even FDR--after all, according to Karl Rove's revisionist history, the New Deal was the begining of the end of America's "greatness."