Leon Panetta: “You got to basically go after people and make them understand what they have to do, and that means you create a war…”

It is inexcusable not to do the proper planning that has to be done in order to make sure that their deployment is not overextended, that they’re getting the supplies they need, that they’re getting the support they need.

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

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

I don't like the idea that former soldiers who served well, uh, at least during the time they spent in the military, uh, that somehow there was something that happened that then turned them into terrorists.