Leon Panetta: “And that is the danger here: that rather than bringing peace, it's going to bring more war.”

It is inexcusable not to do the proper planning that has to be done in order to make sure that their deployment is not overextended, that they’re getting the supplies they need, that they’re getting the support they need.

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…

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.