Leon Panetta: “I share your concern about where are they going to draw the resources they need not only to sustain the army and the…”

It just -- it strikes me that what the chairman was trying to do perhaps was to try to send a wake-up call to both the Speaker and his Republican colleagues, that Russia still remains very much a threat to 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.

But the facts speak for themselves.

I never thought I would see that in my lifetime.