The 'Five O'Clock Follies' are back

KR's Joe Galloway:

WASHINGTON - When you pay the sort of tuition that we Americans paid in Vietnam - 58,249 Americans dead and more than 300,000 seriously wounded - it would seem incumbent on us to remember the lessons we learned for at least a generation or two.
One important lesson was that using enemy body counts as a metric of success corrupts the system and makes liars out of soldiers and officers.

All here. Even at the age of 12 we knew the "Five O'Clock Follies" were bullshit.