So Leon Panetta is facing questioning from the Senate on his nomination to be the next head of the CIA. According to reports from the AP, he said "he would come to the job with a list a questions he wants the agency to answer.
Where is Osama bin Laden?
When will al-Qaida next try to attack the United States, and where?
When will Iran have a nuclear weapon? How can it be deterred from getting one?
What will it take to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapon?"
Those don't exactly seem like shockingly unexpected questions -- nor, in fact, questions that probably haven't been asked during the past administration. It doesn't show any great insight to pose the most obvious questions about our national security. What concern me is that Panetta would be going into this job with no more knowledge of how to get those answers than anyone else.
Panetta has not worked in or around the area of national security before and would be in effect learning on the job (not unlike our even less-experienced President). He is neither an intelligence nor national security expert. He brings no significant, relevant experience in any of the issues that would be facing him in his new position.
What Panetta is is what the naive masses had expected not to see in an Obama administration and what it is teeming with -- another Washington insider who is expected to call in political chits to get Obama's policies pushed through.
As my alter ego said today, "The inexperience in Washington is matched only by the moronic masses who did not realize that change meant throwing out the baby with the bathwater."
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