So I was listening to NPR online yesterday, jetlagged in the middle of the night in Mumbai, monsoon rains lashing my hotel windows facing the Arabian Sea, while inking a new cartoon when I heard an American general explain how the Army had spent zillions to adapt one of its main personnel vehicles for mountainous Afghanistan. (It had originally been designed for flat, paved Iraq.) This, he crowed, was why things were going better there—we’re learning!
I wondered: Why didn’t they spend the money to pave the roads instead?
