Enabling our foreign partners to provide for their own security and contribute to multilateral security efforts is an investment that pays immediate and long-term dividends by reducing the need for costlier U.S. interventions in response to turmoil in regions critical to U.S. interests.
Panetta emphasizes the importance of foreign partnerships in security to minimize U.S. military interventions.
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It’s poor planning to wind up with your stockpiles of key weapons being depleted.
I think America will be back fighting Iran again in a few years, no matter what happens now.
And the problem is, we now realize that 80% of our THAADs are down, that our Patriots were down almost more than one half … and we’re down in our Stingers, we’re down with all of our critical missile systems at a time when there is a real…
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.
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