Leon Panetta: “It creates obviously a great deal of confusion in the country, and I would suspect it creates a great deal of confusion…”

That’s too long, and it should have been brought back sooner.

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.

I think we have to take this intelligence assessment as a real threat to NATO.

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