Leon Panetta said...

We are making a big mistake if we just suddenly pull out all of our forces out of Afghanistan

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