I thought it was only the French and other nationalities that behaved so honourably

[Joe Chi Minh]

towards the deceased military of other nations. On the other hand, it was a private individual, not our government, who undertook it.

My wife, currently reading the papers, has just told me that Poland spends 3 times as much on its meals for their military in Afghanistan, than Brown and NuLab(c) do on ours.

Our imperial, Norman, ruling culture has always been lethally predatory on its own people, but NuLab(c) remind me of the Gospel passage, in which Jesus says of the less worthy pillars of the Synagogue of his day, whose hypocrisy and avarice so filled him with fury, that they scour the whole earth for converts, who then turn out to be worse than themselves.

http://www.shermantank.co.uk/recovery3.ikml

[hughee99]

1. Spending more doesn't necessarily mean it's better.

Look how much we're paying for showers that electrocute people, and for gas in an region where it's almost as cheap as water. Without seeing what the Polish meals are, can we really tell if the money ends up "on the plate" or in someone else's pocket?

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. When you talk about US procurements you are talking about a grotesque, surreal outlier, not

normal common-sense procurements and any kind of consideration of value for money, in terms of the product and the tax-payer. Indeed, considering the poverty of Poland (I've heard of Rip-Off Britain, but not Poland), it makes NuLab(c)'s role all the more sordid and lamentable. You must compare like with like.

In terms of cronyism, and value to the American wheelers and dealers, commercial and political, entrusted with the procurements for the military in Iraq and possibly Afghanistan, that's another matter. But to the tax-payer and sometimes the troops, a good deal of the money for procurements disappeared down a gigantic black hole, with billions of dollars simply unaccounted for, and on occasions, appalling products and service.

[PavePusher]

3. To be fair...

the U.S. military has economies of scale that the Poles likely do not.

And I've had the food at a number of bases in SW Asia. Never been to bad as far as I could tell. Although the menus could get a bit monotonous. I think there is approx. a 2-week rotating selection. You can pretty well tell the calander date by how long it's been since yo had meatloaf or roast turkey or lasagne.

"Four more Chili-macs until I rotate home" was not an uncommon declaration...


Do you have a link to the article you are refering to?