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Wastrels

November 27, 2004 at 10:33 am | In yulelogStories | 2 Comments

Wastrel — great-sounding word, isn’t it? Woody, not tinny.

Here’s a definition:

wastrel n : someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently [syn: waster]

Chet Richards reviews Winslow Wheeler’s The Wastrels of Defense; How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security (US Naval Institute Press, 2004) for Defense and National Interest. (Don’t ask how I came across that particular site, just read the review — or the book.)

Alarming stuff.