A new dynamic duo: can they match the ratings?
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It'll be well worth checking out the language and body language over at CNN's forum with Secretaries of State and Defense Clinton and Panetta this morning, streaming shortly at www.state.gov and www.defense.gov. The reaction to this likely-to-be-underreported event in the August doldrums, post-debt ceiling stupor that is Washington will give tea leaves on several important things for the fall:
State of the State-Defense Partnership: in a world where challenges of economy and state craft are second to none, but our political system gives priority to military hardware, this partnership is critical -- for Democratic administrations averse to charges of weakness in particular -- to getting resources and oomph to get anything done, from Afghanistan and Pakistan to peacekeeping in Congo to treaties on Law of the Sea and violence against women. Clinton and Gates worked together near-seamlessly. Gates being far, far too masterful to be Charlie Sheen, can Panetta nonetheless be Ashton Kutcher? Is he the latter-day Darren on Bewitched? Or, in fact, does the Pentagon play that show's lead character and just wrinkle its nose, even in these parlous times?
Super-Posturing for the Super-Committee: The Obama Administration's right-minded effort to portray the seamless reality of "security" spending encompassing military and civilian activities has resulted in much of clinton's writ being thrown into the same budget pt as (and dwarfed by) Panetta's. With pressure for more cuts to avoid mandatory sequestration by the super-Congress, foreign asisstance, UN dues and even basic diplomatic operations overseas are perceived to be under severe threat -- on top of the shellacking they took in the House version of the 2012 budget. Clinton kept Gates very close, and Gates was more than willingto speak strongly on behalf of civilian spending -- will Panetta follow suit, and what can he deliver, given the pressure he is under in his own shop? What case can the Administration use to push back on a Congress calling for unrivaled american primacy even as it slashes the infrastructure and dismisses the institutions where US leadership is exercised?
Making News: While Washington was whipping itself into a frenzy of foolishness, a lot has gone on in the world: Eurozone debt, UK riots, progress by Libyan rebels, Iraq violence, Afghanistan violence, Pakistan violence, allegations that Pakistan let Chinese military officers look at the remains of a "stealth" US helicopter, North Korean threats to test, Chinese trash-talking the US economy. Will the dynamic duo make news on any of the above, and which will they choose?
Panetta Live: There have been, let's say, quite a few spontaneous moments so far. How does this live appearance in front of a friendly hometown crowd go?
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