says a veteran military reporter to one of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld’s underlings:
“…this is not an army on the way up but one on the way to a disaster… so far it is the willingness of these young men and women to serve, and to deploy multiple times, and to work grueling and dangerous 18 hour days 7 days a week that is the glue holding things together.
all the cheap fixes have been used; all the one-time-only gains so beloved of legislators trying to balance a budget and get out of town.”
