The over-deployment of a too-small military since 9/11 has led to a peculiar situation where Congress and the nation feel a subtle sense of guilt over what they have put the nation’s young men and women in uniform through. It has warped military compensation and retirement policies, Lawrence J. Korb, Alex Rothman, and Max Hoffman write in a report released Monday by the non-profit, left-leaning Center for American Progress.
They detail the problems, and their proposed solutions, in their 40-page paper. But if you want to cut to the chase, it’s neatly summed up in their brief conclusion, which says the nation’s leaders “have committed a moral outrage and have attempted to make up for this dereliction of duty by throwing money at the problem.”
“Dereliction of duty.” Where have we heard that phrase before?