they've won

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/48338

The US army is not allowing soldiers to use personally purchased body armor. I would agree with this if things were different. If we NEEDED to die for ideas. If honor could actually be obtained by killing a dangerous enemy. Don't get me wrong, I am not arguing about this war. War happens. We aren't yet beyond war, but when our military (perhaps the most reasonably dominant in Earth's history) is being pushed around by liability attorneys... we have lost something.