more news for idolaters of govt to ignore

The headline for the AP's Richard Lardner's article in the C-J cracked me up: "Panel finds problems in spending on wars".

Really?!

I guess we can be thankful to live in a country where they tell us about some/much of the waste, if not the damage.

The Wartime Contracting Commission, issuing its first report to Congress this week, presents a bleak assessment of how tens of billions of dollars have been spent in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.

The 111-page report, obtained by The Associated Press, documents poor management, weak oversight, and a failure to learn from past mistakes as recurring themes in wartime contracting.

Here's the problem: Someone with inappropriate faith in government-- whether in the military &/or overall-- will respond to this article by thinking that we need to regulate the government, get better people in there, etc.

Nope, sorry..."it" doesn't work that way. Throw out your idols!