Your biggest flip flop

[Minimalist]

Just like Min, the military.

It's not "the military" so much as it is the concept that every problem can be solved by dropping bombs on it.  We spend a lot of money to train soldiers to obey orders which is why they are soldiers and not thugs.  We should train the fucking cops a quarter as well. 

There was an interesting observation in Richard Engel's "And Then All Hell Broke Loose."  The generals were not happy with the ease of Afghanistan.  They wanted a real war where they could push flags across a map and be big fucking heroes.  They felt deprived of that when the Northern Alliance chased the Taliban out of Kabul so easily.  They couldn't wait to get into Iraq where they could "love the smell of napalm in the morning."

I don't blame soldiers for doing what they are told to do.  I'm less impressed with the officer corps.