team is a known quantity. they have worked together and it s interesting because i think leon panetta was the choice of the outgoing defense secretary gates. so, they are both known as being more pragmatic than ideological. all of these people are very easily confirmable. i think with the administration was looking for was more continuity than anything else. bring in some new blood because not everything is going that well on the national security front now, why not bring in some new thing? it is clear, need decision to make and they decided to go with the people they know because they want some continuity because they want people there at the beginning of certain decisions to decide what happens at the other end. no doubt leon panetta s major challenge will be to take that, what 6 or $700 billion a year pog budget and start chopping tens and tense and tens of billions of dollars. as you know, this is a man with one of the most extensive