obama met with our nation's defense secretary, leon panetta, why the defense secretary, why today of all days? because under this debt ceiling deal, defense seems to be the biggest item slated for cuts, at least maybe for cuts both in terms of the short-term and in terms of the cuts that would come into play if congress doesn't agree on big generic spending reductions, thus triggering automatic deep cuts, those could account to 10% of the pentagon's annual budget. when president obama chose leon panetta to be his new secretary of defense, not just the cia director, did the president make that choice of mr. panetta in part because he saw changes coming at the pentagon? could we actually be changing course on the single biggest thing in american politics that never really gets debated? the single largest chunk of money in american politics and government, the single biggest thing in american government that affects all of our lives and every single thing about the way america is seen...