Leon Panetta: “To be frank, I don't think he had a lot of time to say anything. It was -- it was a fire fight going up that compound.”

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.

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

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.

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.