“You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish to have. […] You can have all the armor in the world on a tank…and a tank…can be blown up. And you can have an up-armored Humvee, and it can be blown up.”
-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tries to explain to troops in Kuwait why they’re protecting themselves with “hillbilly armor”, 12/8/2004

Words fail me. To borrow a phrase from Lewis Black, I’m amazed the amassed Army personnel didn’t rise up as one and slay him.