One way to save insurgents the trouble.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Brief article

I've been meaning to congratulate Time's Mark Thompson for his investigative reporting on the U.S. military. In June, he cowrote an analysis of how Iraq had worn the Army out. And in October, he published a thorough expose of the V-22 Osprey, the hybrid helicopter-plane whose many defects the Marines have resolutely refused to face. Thompson's headline told the story: "It's unsafe. It can't shoot straight. It's already cost...