When You're Losing, Change the Rules

Charlie Savage of the Boston Globe filed an interesting piece regarding how the Bush administration is looking to inject itself into the promotions process within the JAG core by basically instituting a political veto over all promotion decisions.

**Sarcasm on** Makes sense to me. If the courts are going to force you to act in accordance with annoying little suggestions like the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions when dealing with detainees, the least you should do is create structural incentives such that the military lawyers who are involved in the process must either choose between their careers or what's "right" given our legal and moral national traditions. You're either with us or against us, after all... **Sarcasm off**