i'd like to stand back and look have a pattern in american history, and tha nt is for the nextwar. and we weren't prepared for the war of independence. the war of 1812. eycapital, we weren't ready for that. and we really weren't prepared for the great world wars. and when it came to korea, we o with no real backup for them. and it's fortunate that they didn't all get killed. time after time, we've cut our defense because things ok peaceful. now today, what we'rettin defen when things don't look peaceful. which seems to be a really bizarre thing for us to do. the republican budget turns that around and changes that. and maintains at least what's a reasonable level of defense. we're going to be dealing with the same number of billion dollars in defense as we had last year so we're holding that constant. obviously, the big sort of damocles is this idea of sequestration which was a bad idea to start with and it's not looking any better now. the democrat secretary of