Raise your voice

Another terrific essay by Star A. Decise of The Enigmatic Paradox, in which the blogger condemns

...the thunderous silence greeting yesterday's New York Times article that hundreds of American soldiers have died because they lacked the most effective body armor due to Pentagon indifference and bureaucratic snafus worthy of an addendum to Catch-22.

[A] secret Defense Department study found that additional body armor, which has been available since 2003 for about $260 a copy, probably would have saved the lives of 80 percent of the marines killed in the last two years by upper body wounds.

Where is our collective outrage at - or even cursory interest in - this appalling revelation? In the Highway Bill alone this year, the federal government pledged $24 billion to "pork projects". To think that it has not unanimously agreed to spend what amounts to $50 million, in a simple effort to fully protect every man and woman it has recklessly ordered into harm's way, is incomprehensible. That we, the people, have not made a louder noise about this situation is, in a word, inexplicable.

It's about time we started. Raise your voice, America.