Leon Panetta: “The fundamental mission in Afghanistan is to provide sufficient stability so that country never again becomes a safe…”

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.

Well, it certainly is concerning. You know, having been to the Munich conference a number of times, usually when a vice president or president goes to the Munich conference, he discusses the importance of security between the United States…

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.

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