Leon Panetta said...

I'd like to believe it was an instance where his own conscience said, I've got to tell the American people the truth.

I privately and publicly advocated for a residual force that could provide training and security for Iraq's military.

the President has to make very clear to Russia and to Putin that we will not tolerate this kind of behavior

That message of strength will take us a long way toward making clear that Putin is going to pay a price for behaving the...