ANOTHER NATIONAL SECURITY FAILURE

It's still amazes me that anyone can claim the GOP is the Party of National Security with a straight face. From outing a mole in Al Qaeda to planning for a post-war Iraq to installing hacks at FEMA and State, the Bush regime has been a miserable failure.

Billions in Aid to Pakistan Was Wasted, Officials Assert
By DAVID ROHDE, CARLOTTA GALL, ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: December 24, 2007

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After the United States has spent more than $5 billion in a largely failed effort to bolster the Pakistani military effort against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, some American officials now acknowledge that there were too few controls over the money. The strategy to improve the Pakistani military, they said, needs to be completely revamped.