What I'm reading when I'm not reading this book for Vietnam class

Salon's feature article today, "The new Pentagon papers." Their summary:

A high-ranking military officer reveals how Defense Department extremists suppressed information and twisted the truth to drive the country to war.

It's rather lengthy, so I'll probably finish it when I get home. But so far it's very interesting, quite the revealing look at how the Pentagon has worked for the past couple of years. (I would say it's shocking, but can anything involving the Bush administration really shock you anymore?)

The education I would receive there was like an M. Night Shyamalan movie -- intense, fascinating and frightening. While the people were very much alive, I saw a dead philosophy -- Cold War anti-communism and neo-imperialism -- walking the corridors of the Pentagon. It wore the clothing of counterterrorism and spoke the language of a holy war between good and evil. The evil was recognized by the leadership to be resident mainly in the Middle East and articulated by Islamic clerics and radicals. But there were other enemies within, anyone who dared voice any skepticism about their grand plans, including Secretary of State Colin Powell and Gen. Anthony Zinni.

See what I mean? This type of behavior doesn't come as a shock anymore. Not when it's the only possible explaination for a crazy situation...