General Philip M. Breedlove, New NATO Commander – Moral Fiber and Trust a Factor in His Selection

Gen. Philip M. Breedlove is Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, U.S. Air Forces Africa, Commander Air Component Command, Ramstein; and Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Kalkar, Germany. He is responsible for Air Force activities, conducted through 3rd Air Force, in an area of operations covering more than 19 million square miles. This …

Winslow Wheelers: Morally Bankrupt Flag Officers Need to Go + Pentagon Corruption RECAP

The Joint Chiefs of Staff testified to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees this week arguing that unless their budgets are augmented with still more money they will hollow out the armed forces. Most in the press and Congress didn’t read their assertions that way, but two near simultaneous reports that provide some meaningful …

SchwartzReport: Catholic Leaders Morally Disengaged and Complicit in Sex Abuse Cover-Ups for Decades

Another Catholic Sex Abuse Cover-up MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, Staff Writer – Salon This story just never stops, and finally one is forced to conclude that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy (as distinct from the living community of believers) is simply degenerate and corrupt. So many thousands upon thousands of children have been molested worldwide by this …

Winslow Wheeler: The China Pivot and Air-Sea Battle — Institutionalized Idiocy and the Moral-Intellectual Death of Andy Marshall

The Asia Pivot–with “Air-Sea Battle” deeply embedded into it–has become the accepted wisdom in Washington for America’s post-Afghanistan national security strategy.  Is it affordable?  Is it competent? Is it even a strategy? It also presents a useful test for SecDef-designate Hagel’s ability to separate the wheat from the chaff regarding defense issues.  While Hagel has already shredded–to …

Marcus Auerelius: Mike Morell Has No Clue…CIA is Brain Dead and Morally Disengaged

If the Acting Director can be lied to so easily, why should he be trusted to oversee an out of control agency?  Below from Senator Feinstein’s web page. Feinstein, McCain, Levin Ask CIA for ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Documents Concerned that CIA’s cooperation was inappropriate, potentially misled filmmakers Washington—Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Senate …

David Isenberg: BusinessWeek on Morality of Drones

Drones: The Morality of War From the Sky By Jeffrey Goldberg Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 11, 2012 President Obama, who is putatively a civil libertarian—or, at the very least, the preferred candidate of most civil libertarians—has achieved something remarkable over the course of his term. He has led an expansive war against America’s enemies using lethal …