WASHINGTON REPORT

摘要

Most people would not envy Leon Panetta his new job as Pentagon chief.After all, the California congressman-turned-CIA chief takes over at the Defense Department July 1 just as the Obama administration begins to implement planned reductions to the size of the U.S. military's fighting force in Afghanistan.At the same time, Panetta must manage Washington's increasingly strained and fragile relationship with Islamabad, even as many top U.S. officials question Pakistan's commitment to counterterror efforts and wonder aloud at how Osama bin Laden could have lived - undetected - in a compound there.