Leon Panetta: “I trust our military leadership to make the right decision based on their assessment of the conditions on the ground.”

The secretaries of defense feel that there have to be hearings to oversee just exactly what took place and what standard this administration is going to use.

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.

Autocrats that once operated in their own spheres of influence have now joined together in an axis of mutual support and aggression.

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