What Are You Currently Reading? 2013

[carl]

Ganulv:

The most interesting part of that New Yorker story were these lines spoken by the narrator:

As SEAL Team Six, we were at the top of that scheme. Our ideas about the war were the war.

To me that sort of encapsulates in two sentences the supreme and invincible arrogance of the big military, a supreme confidence even though what is being done hasn't worked and isn't working. The stats are good though.