The day after my article's publication, Esper announced that, in keeping with President Trump's welcome newfound skepticism about the program, he would be probing the process by which it was created, putting the entire ill-advised boondoggle on hold until he could be sure the whole thing had been done above-board.
Just a mere day after asking Esper to be the anti-Mattis, I found that he was committed to being just that.
I for one feel compelled to give an attaboy to the real decision-makers in this case: namely, President Trump and Mark Esper.
In a world where warnings about swamp-style corruption are often muzzled by huge influxes of corporate dollars, consultant-driven smear campaigns, and chumminess between contractors and their government clients, Trump and Esper's willingness to put the whole sordid process under the microscope shows that both are entirely committed to draining the swamp against which President Trump in particular rails so often.
Esper will need the kind of toughness he displayed in taking this decision again, and fast.
If Esper was prepared to shut down a similarly wasteful and dangerous project with only $10 billion at stake, why on earth should he let it slide when over ten times that much money has already been flushed down the gold plated toilet?
Esper is clearly willing to listen to concerns from those of us who favor both military superiority and the accountability required to maintain it.
https://spectator.org/esper-has-begun-draining-the-swamp/
Just a mere day after asking Esper to be the anti-Mattis, I found that he was committed to being just that.
I for one feel compelled to give an attaboy to the real decision-makers in this case: namely, President Trump and Mark Esper.
In a world where warnings about swamp-style corruption are often muzzled by huge influxes of corporate dollars, consultant-driven smear campaigns, and chumminess between contractors and their government clients, Trump and Esper's willingness to put the whole sordid process under the microscope shows that both are entirely committed to draining the swamp against which President Trump in particular rails so often.
Esper will need the kind of toughness he displayed in taking this decision again, and fast.
If Esper was prepared to shut down a similarly wasteful and dangerous project with only $10 billion at stake, why on earth should he let it slide when over ten times that much money has already been flushed down the gold plated toilet?
Esper is clearly willing to listen to concerns from those of us who favor both military superiority and the accountability required to maintain it.
https://spectator.org/esper-has-begun-draining-the-swamp/
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