MRAP madness dies down

"A new defense secretary fresh out of confirmation hearings and eager to make nice with a Democratic Congress acceded to lawmakers' demands and launched a crash program to get as many MRAPs to the field as industry and logistics could bear.

But if anyone spoke for caution in this plan (and I was one of them), they were quickly shouted down as chicken hawks--dismissed as ignorant of the risks and deadly violence of plying Iraq's bomb-strewn roads." Christian Lowe writes this in an interesting assessment of the current state of MRAP affairs. The complete article is here.

Source: The Daily Standard as cited
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