Watch Defense Secretary Leon Panetta as he trots out over and over again this week to explain before well-placed cameras that, despite “cuts” to the Pentagon budget, somehow the U.S. military will manage to muddle through, sigh, it’s OK, sigh again, cue rumbly jowls of sadness, cue raised eyebrows of dejected resignation.
Watch it, but don’t believe it.
Under the “cuts”, the Defense budget will be $36 billion bigger in 2017 than it is today.
The plan is for a bigger military budget, not a smaller one. Even Panetta’s jowls can’t hide that fact.
