Leon Panetta: “A smaller, ready, and well-equipped military is preferable to a larger, ill-prepared force.”

And ... we’re going to have to respond. And right now, because our missile systems and our supply of weapons being down, this is a vulnerable period for the United States.

Something, somebody, somewhere failed to do the proper planning for what had to take place in order to properly support our men and women in uniform.

Well, it should not have happened. I don’t care what excuses you want to use, it should not have happened.

I think America will be back fighting Iran again in a few years, no matter what happens now.