Oh yeah. The latest round of Obama administration wanting to postpone purchase a new fleet of tankers for the air force for 5 years has all of Congress groansing.

I'd like to dig deeper into the issue, but it's a daunting task, and outside of competence. In other words, I wouldn't know where to start. Not that I knew what I was getting into with foreign policy, but by now, I've 8 months of web searching, and a huge turnover of sites until I found the best sources available. And that's STILL changing on a weekly basis.

The thought of searching for whose congressional district gets what out of the deal, how they're voting, who their campaign contributors are....

If anyone wants to pick up on that, be my guest. I'm certain it'd be illustrative of just how dirty the defence procurement system is.

Have you heard about Chas Freeman being forced out of his nomination for Chairman of the National Intelligence Council? (here and here). AIPAC got him. He was in favor of restricting settlements on the West Bank and the Two-State solution, and maybe he wasn't as hard on Iran as the AIPAC hardliners wanted. Otherwise, I guess he was well suited to the post.

"It Can't Be Just About Us"
--Frank Schnittger, ETian Extraordinaire