Leon Panetta: “We can't afford for that to happen.”

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

Well, it should not have happened. I don’t care what excuses you want to use, it should not have happened.

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.

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