New SecDef Leon Panetta warns those in his department - and Congress - that the government's real debt and deficit problem isn't really addressed - really addressed, not made the subject of a drama-queen reality show - the new agreement's triggers will kick in and security-imperiling cuts to defense will be enacted.
Panetta has long been a prominent member of the Freedom-Hater party, and he usually toes the line. I've always had the sense, though, that underneath the FHer dogma that. for career reasons or whatever, he has had to express fealty to, he had at least a lick of sense and a shred of humanity. So here he is, caught between what the party line which, due to the high stakes involved, he must adhere (spend and tax away, exhaust the system's resources, diminish America's standing in the world) and the real threat to a nation full of real, live human beings that that party line poses.
At the moment at least, he's taking the admirable path.
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