TROOP VISIT
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta speaks to U.S. troops on Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, Dec. 13, 2011. Panetta thanked each service member for their efforts and sacrifices while also wishing them happy holidays. DOD photo by Erin Kirk-Cuomo
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta speaks to U.S. troops on Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, Dec. 13, 2011. Panetta thanked each service member for their efforts and sacrifices while also wishing them happy holidays. DOD photo by Erin Kirk-Cuomo
Is Leon Panetta The Right Man To Be Secretary Of Defense? -- Winslow Wheeler, Time
For several months, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has been using extreme rhetoric to characterize cuts in the Pentagon budget beyond the $450 billion reduction over ten years he has already accepted. With the failure of the so-called Super Committee in Congress to come up with a plan to address the federal deficit, Panetta has warned—over and over again—that an automatically triggered “Doomsday Mechanism” to impose another $450 billion in reductions over nine years would be a “catastrophe” that could be so crippling as to “hollow out the force,” and “enemies would be emboldened to attack the U.S.”
Read more ....
My Comment: Too early to say if Leon Panetta is the right man to be Secretary of Defense .... ask me this question when the budget cuts and program cancellations have taken place.
No comments:
Post a Comment