Comments on: Maybe, Finally, Some Accountability? http://registan.net/index.php/2010/02/05/maybe-finally-some-accountability/ Central Asia News -- All Central Asia, All The Time Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:53:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sailani http://registan.net/index.php/2010/02/05/maybe-finally-some-accountability/comment-page-1/#comment-384224 Sailani Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:40:22 +0000 http://www.registan.net/?p=10464#comment-384224 I hear you, but do we really have time for baby steps here? Kamdesh was a monumental screwup in terms of location, defences, and posture, and while they were indeed unlucky to be hit by such a cohesive and motivated force (who barely faltered under concentrated CAS once it arrived) the base should never have been breached and more or less overrun IMO. Plan for the worst, plan for the worst, plan for the worst. I hear you, but do we really have time for baby steps here? Kamdesh was a monumental screwup in terms of location, defences, and posture, and while they were indeed unlucky to be hit by such a cohesive and motivated force (who barely faltered under concentrated CAS once it arrived) the base should never have been breached and more or less overrun IMO. Plan for the worst, plan for the worst, plan for the worst.

]]> By: Joshua Foust http://registan.net/index.php/2010/02/05/maybe-finally-some-accountability/comment-page-1/#comment-384216 Joshua Foust Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:55:16 +0000 http://www.registan.net/?p=10464#comment-384216 I'm leaving mostly unsaid (until now!) my belief that letters of reprimand are not enough for screw ups of this magnitude. Commanders are being lazy and arrogant, and it is costing U.S. lives by the dozen. That should be unacceptable. But the last few months of watching General McChrystal <a href="http://www.registan.net/index.php/2010/02/04/ill-have-what-hes-smoking/" rel="nofollow">traipse</a> through counterinsurgency for undergraduates tells that, while people really need to be fired and discharged for the number of innocent lives they've thrown away through their own arrogance and negligence, for the time being I'll settle for baby steps. Perfect being the enemy of good and all that. I’m leaving mostly unsaid (until now!) my belief that letters of reprimand are not enough for screw ups of this magnitude. Commanders are being lazy and arrogant, and it is costing U.S. lives by the dozen. That should be unacceptable.

But the last few months of watching General McChrystal traipse through counterinsurgency for undergraduates tells that, while people really need to be fired and discharged for the number of innocent lives they’ve thrown away through their own arrogance and negligence, for the time being I’ll settle for baby steps. Perfect being the enemy of good and all that.

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