Leon Panetta: “The fact is that we are dealing with a world in which there are myriad threats that we confront now.”

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

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

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

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.