All that Seldowitz did, was just to show you where they are coming from. He is retired, he has his huge gold plated pension and private money coming in, so he now says what all of them still in DC dont actually say in public. Because that kind of talk in public would would get a government official fired, and leave them unable to do their dirty work.
WHAT they do and who they do it TO, well its all here in black and white:
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human
All that Seldowitz did, was just to show you where they are coming from. He is retired, he has his huge gold plated pension and private money coming in, so he now says what all of them still in DC dont actually say in public. Because that kind of talk in public would would get a government official fired, and leave them unable to do their dirty work.