If you work for a bureaucracy then by definition you are a bureaucrat!
The uniform services are a bureaucracy, DOD The civilian part that supplies the bullets & beans is a bureaucracy, when CIA officers are home from the field (even in the field depending on the size of the facility!) are in a bureaucracy, the support that keeps them there is a bureaucracy. I am sorry I get tired about the ranting about government bureaucrats. It's misdirection against who is really at fault! Bureaucrats simply implement what the policy is from whoever we put in power. They have very little say in it. (They are exceptions like the NASA idiot Hansen, who by the way every time he publicly opens his mouth and acts as an advocate breaks civil service law! But the system if it's GOP is too cowardly to prosecute, if its Rat then they encourage his law breaking!) Who is at fault is the American voter who buys into the snake oil from the career politician. We voters enable this!
And I really don't have an answer people in minority districts are fine with the local corruption because it "gets back at the man"! (Those parents who actually try to be parents what do the tell their children in regardto honesty?)I am originally from WV and people there were fine for year sending people like Byrd, etc to DC where they go there with modest means & come back with enough wealth to make Midas envious! Yet they don't ask how did that happen on congressional pay? A majority of the country was fine with Bill Clinton's behavior! And in 2008 they put in office a man whose resume might be enough to get him a job as a file clerk!
The problem is us & the career politician, but its mostly us! We send them there, and then wonder why these things we don't like happen! Of course it must be the bureaucrats ! It can't be that smiling baby-kissing slug we gave our votes to! We can't be that foolish! Well we are! The historic record proves it!
You’re off on a rant - so I’ll be succinct: the only way to be “offended” by the article and assume that the soldiers were lumped in with the rest of the government bureaucratic waste is to have gone off in search of being offended.
No common sense reading of the piece would ever lead an intelligent reader to such a conclusion. It was a commentary, not a technical manual.