Washington Post Joins Hysterical Defense Budget Rhetoric

Washington Post Joins Hysterical Defense Budget Rhetoric
Monday, November 7, the Washington Post editorial board published its take on the extreme rhetoric the country has been hearing on the defense budget since Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta starting talking about the "doomsday mechanism" that would reduce defense spending.  Quoting the newer extreme rhetoric of several members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff defending their budget ambitions to the eager-to-listen House Armed services Committee, the Washington Post positioned itself foursquare in favor of hysterics.  It was with an editorial titled "Defense on the Rocks: Mandated spending cuts could decimate U.S. military might."  Find it below and at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/defense-on-the-rocks/2011/11/04/gIQAKQDctM_story.html (although at the web link they toned down the title with the more sympathetic "US Defense on the defensive.")