"Progress Is Being Made"

by Patrick Appel

Col. Lawrence Sellin was made to leave Afghanistan for speaking plainly about military bureaucracy. He has a follow-up guest post over at Tom Ricks's place:

I think it is time for the American people to hold the seniormilitary leaderships' (colonels and up) feet to the fire. When theymake their reports to Congress, one can be sure that it is the bestpossible scenario that they can justify without lying. The phrase"progress is being made" should not be accepted as an answer. It...