This will not sit well at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

I just saw that The Army Times has a new editorial out regarding the prisoner torture scandal unfolding in Iraq. To say that it's scathing is an understatement: A Failure of Leadership at the Highest Level

Around the halls of the Pentagon, a term of caustic derision has emerged for the enlisted soldiers at the heart of the furor over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal: the six morons who lost the war.

Indeed, the damage done to the U.S. military and the nation as a whole by the horrifying photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees at the notorious prison is incalculable.

But the folks in the Pentagon are talking about the wrong morons.

I've worked for several newspapers that had close military ties. When I was at the Temple Daily Telegram we published the Fort Hood Sentinel. While at Prime Time Newspapers, we published the Lackland AFB Talespinner, Fort Sam Houston Newsleader and the Randolph AFB Wingspread. While the majority of the staff on these papers are civilian, many are veterans, many are married to active-duty soldiers and all are unequivocably pro-military. Calling for heads to roll at the highest reaches of command signals a deep discontent among the rank-and-file of our armed forces.

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