We Certainly Can Expect More Of This

MAJOR GENERAL JAY W. HOOD

"If you plant ice, you're gonna to harvest wind" is an aphorism (and Grateful Dead lyric) that will be in play with depressing frequency as America and the world lurch away from the Age of Bush. And it's already happening:

"When the Pentagon announced in March that Maj. Gen. Jay W. Hood would become the senior American officer based in Pakistan, it reflected the military’s aim to put a crisis-tested veteran in a critical job at a pivotal time in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan's tribal areas.

"But nearly two months later, the military has quietly canceled the assignment of General Hood, a 33-year Army veteran who was excoriated in the Pakistani news media for one of his previous jobs: commander of the United States prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba."

I'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with stuff like this, this and this.