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May 02, 2005
Look who found our decoder ring!
As though doubts in the strategic value of the U.S.'s current forays in the middle east aren't enough, two recent bumbles seem sure to impress upon the world the coordinating effectiveness and sheer prowess of the U.S. military and intelligence aparati:
Whoops, where'd the F-18s go? Admittedly, I don't know all the details on this, but if CNN.com's framing is at all reflective of reality, this seems pretty bad -- albeit in a sadly funny way. True, there's fog of war, and tragic accidents befall the best trained troops, but I thought radar, radio, satellites and all were supposed to reduce the uncertainty surrounding this sort of thing.
Worse, I think, is the story of the revealed spy. Perhaps the U.S. military has entered a joint-venture with a cereal company to produce spy decoder rings, and somehow sent one box to an Italian hacker, and the other errantly to some poor kid in Iowa. Of course the BBC seems to be the first media outlet picking this up.
Posted by Sam Hodges at 10:17 PM
