[Miss Marple]

Well, you have a point about the military PC.

Maybe we should just get some average citizens who would have the sense to look at intelligence reports and WARNINGS FROM RELATIVES!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Decades from now, when the real history of the US’s latest involvement in Iraq is written, the State Department will (hopefully) be rightfully identified as the one organization that made this effort infinitely more difficult than it had to be.

[csmusaret]

Maybe visa approvals should require a signature so we can identify the numbskull who lets bombers in. Knowing you can be held responsibile tends to focus the attention dramatically.