PROMISES, PROMISES: OBAMA & THE WOUNDED WARRIORS' CAREGIVERS

PROMISES & 

PRETTY SPEECHES. 

OH, YES. 

RESULTS? 

OH, NO.  

OBAMA & THE 

WOUNDED WARRIORS' 

CAREGIVERS 

ROWS OF GRAVESITES 

IN 

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY 

WITH THE PENTAGON 

IN THE BACKGROUND 

Read more about it -- here -- and here -- 

Speaking as an Army brat, and a caregiver (not of one of the current Wounded Warriors; no direct personal "special interest"), I find this most unfortunate, even reprehensible, but as one who has seen Pentagon promises (and presidential promises) broken before, unfortunately not surprising. 

Speaking as a political scientist and student of leadership in organizations, I can even "understand" it. There will always be another war, hot or cold, and its needs will be -- or seem -- more pressing than combat/missions five or ten or twenty or thirty or more years in the past. And then there is always the need for more military hardware just to keep up with (and surpass! even more) the Joneses or the Wangs.... 

But shame!