Making Do

From the AP:
Army Spc. Thomas Wilson, for example, of the 278th Regimental Combat Team that is comprised mainly of citizen soldiers of the Tennessee Army National Guard, asked Rumsfeld in a question-and-answer session why vehicle armor is still in short supply, nearly three years after the war in Iraq.
"Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles?" Wilson asked. A big cheer arose from the approximately 2,300 soldiers in the cavernous hangar who assembled to see and hear the Secretary of Defense.
Rumsfeld hesitated and asked Wilson to repeat his question.
"We do not have proper armored vehicles to carry with us North," Wilson said after asking again.
Rumsfeld replied that, "You go to war with the Army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time."

Oh. I see. Well, I suppose we owe you an apology, Donny. Guess that must be OUR fault. How about knowing your own limitations before you apply yourself in the first place? This is all under the assumption that there was no choice in the matter. THIS WAS AN ELECTIVE WAR, my friend. Can you imagine using this logic in other voluntary situations? "Well, the space shuttle was vastly ill-equipped to make a journey to Mars, so all the astronauts are now dead. But you go with the space program you have, not the space program you might want or wish to have at a later time." "We tortured dozens of prisoners in violation of the Geneva Convention, but you go with the information-gathering methods you have…" "Yes I molested children, but you go with the sex partners you have…"

And so on.