Jay Marcyes

I've often found myself bewildered by people that argue that we should go back to just the constitution, and this post does a great teardown of just what that would entail, and it isn't pretty.

the other 6 pages: 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

Best quotes

From a senior adviser to McChrystal:

"If Americans pulled back and started paying attention to this war, it would become even less popular" (pg 6)

From Andrew Wilder on how useless throwing money at the problem is:

"A tsunami of cash fuels corruption, delegitimizes the government and creates an environment where we're picking winners and losers" (pg 6)

And one final one about what the war actually is good at doing:

So far, counterinsurgency has succeeded only in creating a never-ending demand for the primary product supplied by the military: perpetual war. (pg 6)