03/05/07: Rearranging the Deck Chairs

Published: March 7, 2007, 9:15 p.m.

The mainstream media provided little coverage on the round of musical chairs at the upper levels of the Army in response to the Walter Reed scandal, instead choosing to spend all day Friday reporting on the funeral of Anna Nicole Smith. Jared and Ralph are not the mainstream media; we focus on the real issues! The man predominantly responsible for the decay of Walter Reed, Lt. Gen. Kiley, was briefly reappointed to the commander spot at the hospital; then, the man who reappointed him was removed, and a new commander was put in place. Kiley, for his part, is going down swinging, blaming the journalists and junior officers for the failures of leadership. Is new SecDef Gates going to actually hold people accountable for failure?