That's one reason Congress seems to have so little incentive to cut defense further.

The budget agreement between Congressional leaders and the Bush Administration cuts defense too little.

Some of the money could come from cutting defense faster and raising taxes.

By cutting defense (a well that is now nearly empty), raising taxes and riding the economic boom.

They made a complicated budget deal with the White House last year that destroyed their political incentive to cut defense.

By 1997 we will have cut defense by 30 percent since I took office.

No other nation would have cut defense as much as we already have without that.

The only way out of the bind is to cut defense significantly beyond the huge reductions already scheduled.

But drastically cutting defense without addressing the major cost drivers in the federal budget will get us nowhere.

Though these are the worst ways to cut defense, Congress can seldom resist them.