This morning at coffee, various wars came up in the conversation.
I mentioned Andrew Bacevich and his books, especially "Washington Rules, America's Path to Permanent War". I said that the Department of Defense has become a vast bureaucracy where few question many of the assumptions. It's another case of nobody noticing the emperor has no clothes.
A World War II veteran, shot down over France, hidden by the Resistance, and smuggled out through Spain, said, "Department of Defense! It should be called the Department of Offense!"
Later, another person who comes up with many good puns, which unfortunately we soon forget, asked, "Does an immortal emperor have no closure?"
If the national security bureaucracy thinks it is immortal in its path to permanent war, we certainly will have no closure.
