Milo Minderbinder

Reminding one of the famous line by 1st Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder in Joseph Heller's famous Catch-22 novel, "We're gonna come out of this war rich!" the report found that to keep U.S. warplanes flying over Afghanistan, the Pentagon allowed a "secrecy obsessed" business group to supply jet fuel to a U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan, turning a blind eye to an elaborate fraud involving fuel deliveries from Russia.

David Isenberg: Can't Anyone at DoD Do Oversight? Anyone at All? David Isenberg 2010

But if you want a clear sign that the war is now being run by Milo Minderbinder, you have to read to the very end of the story:

Afghan War Enters The Black Comedy Stage Of Operations: More Tanks! The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Reminding one of the famous line by 1st Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder in Joseph Heller's famous Catch-22 novel, "We're gonna come out of this war rich!" the report found that to keep U.S. warplanes flying over Afghanistan, the Pentagon allowed a "secrecy obsessed" business group to supply jet fuel to a U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan, turning a blind eye to an elaborate fraud involving fuel deliveries from Russia.

David Isenberg: Can't Anyone at DoD Do Oversight? Anyone at All? David Isenberg 2010

Reminding one of the famous line by 1st Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder in Joseph Heller's famous Catch-22 novel, "We're gonna come out of this war rich!" the report found that to keep U.S. warplanes flying over Afghanistan, the Pentagon allowed a "secrecy obsessed" business group to supply jet fuel to a U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan, turning a blind eye to an elaborate fraud involving fuel deliveries from Russia.

David Isenberg: Can't Anyone at DoD Do Oversight? Anyone at All? David Isenberg 2010

Reminding one of the famous line by 1st Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder in Joseph Heller's famous Catch-22 novel, "We're gonna come out of this war rich!" the report found that to keep U.S. warplanes flying over Afghanistan, the Pentagon allowed a "secrecy obsessed" business group to supply jet fuel to a U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan, turning a blind eye to an elaborate fraud involving fuel deliveries from Russia.

David Isenberg: Can't Anyone at DoD Do Oversight? Anyone at All? David Isenberg 2010

Milo Minderbinder is buying clementines in Morocco for seven cents, selling them in Pianosa for five cents, and making a profit.

The Volokh Conspiracy » No, Not That David Bernstein: 2009

Milo Minderbinder is buying clementines in Morocco for seven cents, selling them in Pianosa for five cents, and making a profit.

The Volokh Conspiracy » No, Not That David Bernstein: 2009

So, like Milo Minderbinder in Catch-22, we're supplying both sides of the war.

Robert Naiman: Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan 2009

I was bemused, way back when, about the Milo Minderbinder biz proposal that the Internet would make content free for everyone.

The Volokh Conspiracy » A Bad Idea from Judge Posner: 2009

So many words were crossed out of reports on greenhouse gases, it looked as if Milo Minderbinder had taken his sharpie to it.

Margaret Carlson: Here's to Al Gore and "An Inconvenient Truth" 2008