Leon Panetta: “I believe that if Prime Minister Maliki and the Iraqi Government requests that we maintain a presence there, that ought…”

it's shaping up to be “Trump’s Vietnam,”

It’s poor planning to wind up with your stockpiles of key weapons being depleted.

Mr. Trump has always prided himself on being a dealmaker, pledging in his campaign that he would resolve such conflicts in the first few days of his presidency.

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.