Is DoD Doomed?

I was just merrily reading right along with the Air Force Association's daily news email when I came across an item that just made me shudder and groan at the same time, and it had nothing to do with the cottage cheese at lunch.  You can clearly see the damage a Liberal Administration can do with the power to appoint people to key positions who will remain there for years, decades and sometimes generations to come.

This piece describes new appointees to the Defense Policy Board.  But take a look at the first three names and be prepared to retch.  The first two are Clintonistas come back to haunt again and the third a Liberal Congresscritter, none of whom have the best interests of the military at heart.  With the coming budget crunch and the threat to take half of all new cuts from Defense if the Congressional Super Committee comes to an impasse, who better to tell the SecDef and Service Chiefs to shut up, like it or lump it and just relax until it is all over?

"We have met the enemy and he is us, " Pogo.

Lineup Change for Defense Policy Board: The Defense Policy Board is adding five new members. They are: Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state; Jamie Gorelick, former deputy attorney general; Jane Harman, former Democratic Congresswoman from California; retired Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright, former Joint Chiefs vice chairman; and retired Adm. Gary Roughead, former Chief of Naval Operations. They join returning members: John Hamre, chairman; Harold Brown; J.D. Crouch; Richard Danzig; Rudy deLeon, former GOP Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska; retired Army Gen. Jack Keane; Henry Kissinger; Frank Miller; John Nagl; Sam Nunn; Joseph Nye; William Perry; James Schlesinger; Brent Scowcroft; Sarah Sewall; and retired Gen. Larry Welch, former Air Force Chief of Staff. The DPB advises the Pentagon's civilian leadership on matters concerning defense policy. (DOD release)