Progressives Pay the Price for Confusing a Party With a Movement
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 4th, 2009 4:43 am by HL
Progressives Pay the Price for Confusing a Party With a Movement
Washington’s labor, environmental, anti-war and anti-poverty groups spent millions electing a Democratic president and Congress and were promptly stabbed in the back. So why are they still loyal? READ THE WHOLE ITEM By David Sirota
Washington’s labor, environmental, anti-war and anti-poverty groups spent millions electing a Democratic president and Congress and were promptly stabbed in the back. So why are they still loyal?
Related Entries
- September 3, 2009 Arson Sparked L.A. Inferno
- September 3, 2009 Nobody Wants to Read About Bernie Madoff’s Steamy Affair
- September 1, 2009 Will Japan’s New Leader Maintain His Country’s Fealty to Washington?
- September 1, 2009 World War II: 70 Years and We’re Still Fighting
- August 31, 2009 A Good Idea, Up in Flames
Kabul Contractor Parties Aren’t the Half of It
Much of the furor over the conduct of private embassy guards in Kabul appears preoccupied with what one whistle-blower describes as the “gay shit” rather than the exploitation of young Afghan women or the deteriorating security situation at the embassy. The latter, after all, was the major focus of the complaint that blew this story open. As one of the whistle-blowing guards so eloquently put it in an e-mail, “no, they are not jamming guys in the ass per say [sic], but they are showing poor judgenment [sic].” And so is the State Department, for continuing to rely on contractors when, in the words of the Project on Government Oversight’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, “the management of the contract to protect the U.S. Embassy Kabul is grossly deficient, posing a significant threat to the security of the Embassy and its personnel—and thereby to the diplomatic mission in Afghanistan.” That document, at nearly 4,000 words, is a comprehensive indictment of the government’s use of private security contractors, of which the hazing of naked men is just one of many enumerated scandals. While “peeing on people, eating potato chips out of ass cracks, vodka shots out of ass cracks … broken doors after drnken [sic] brawls, threats and intimidation from those leaders participating in this activity” may be reprehensible, it doesn’t come close to the worst thing these soldiers of fortune have done while on the government payroll. The real crime is that Uncle Sam still uses private contractors at all. —PS Read POGO’s letter to Secretary Clinton. READ THE WHOLE ITEM
Much of the furor over the conduct of private embassy guards in Kabul appears preoccupied with what one whistle-blower describes as the “gay shit” rather than the exploitation of young Afghan women or the deteriorating security situation at the embassy. The latter, after all, was the major focus of the complaint that blew this story open.
As one of the whistle-blowing guards so eloquently put it in an e-mail, “no, they are not jamming guys in the ass per say [sic], but they are showing poor judgenment [sic].”
And so is the State Department, for continuing to rely on contractors when, in the words of the Project on Government Oversight’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, “the management of the contract to protect the U.S. Embassy Kabul is grossly deficient, posing a significant threat to the security of the Embassy and its personnel—and thereby to the diplomatic mission in Afghanistan.”
That document, at nearly 4,000 words, is a comprehensive indictment of the government’s use of private security contractors, of which the hazing of naked men is just one of many enumerated scandals.
While “peeing on people, eating potato chips out of ass cracks, vodka shots out of ass cracks … broken doors after drnken [sic] brawls, threats and intimidation from those leaders participating in this activity” may be reprehensible, it doesn’t come close to the worst thing these soldiers of fortune have done while on the government payroll.
The real crime is that Uncle Sam still uses private contractors at all.? —PS
Read POGO’s letter to Secretary Clinton.
Related Entries
- September 3, 2009 Arson Sparked L.A. Inferno
- September 3, 2009 Nobody Wants to Read About Bernie Madoff’s Steamy Affair
- September 1, 2009 Will Japan’s New Leader Maintain His Country’s Fealty to Washington?
- September 1, 2009 World War II: 70 Years and We’re Still Fighting
- August 31, 2009 A Good Idea, Up in Flames