Panetta’s Pentagon, Without the Blank Check II

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/us/at-pentagon-leon-panetta-charts-change-of-course.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Panetta&st=cse

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From: barry levine
Date: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:53 PM
Subject: re: Panetta’s Pentagon, Without the Blank Check
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
 That secretary Panetta alleges that we "hollowed out" the U.S. military after WWII is newsworthy, and has a proper place in this paper.

 What is missing is a notation that his allegation is false. It is precisely because we didn't hollow out the U.S. military after WWII that 

president Truman was able to go into Korea without consulting Congress. The military was already armed and funded.  No one in Washington

 operates with less oversight than the head of our CIA. It is not comforting to see that his grasp of reality is so tenuous. And it's disappointing

 to see the press so supine.
Barry Haskell Levine