Panetta on TV , lying his ass off..

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13. That's not what he said at all.

He said that any change in strategy involves different levels of risk assessment and that different allocation of resources would mean that there would be additional risks but that an intelligent approach to reviewing the strategy is evaluating the relative cost that is associated to a particular risk. For example moving from a two war strategy to a single war strategy would increase the risk of not meeting the resources needed in a second war if that happened. His point, which went over your head, was that the resources needed to sustain a two war strategy is not worth the cost and that those risks can be handled in other ways, and his more important point is that by changing the premises of a post WWII (and post Vietnam) strategy that we would be allocating resources that would be more likely to confront the actual risks of the future.