Well explain why we blindly armed the Sinola cartel in Mexico then, Mr Panetta!
Yes, but we already had forces in harms way and the point was to get them out - that other thing you must have read about never leaving a comrade in arms behind on the battlefield.
Panetta’s comments are cowardly. Risk is INHERENT when deploying forces into “Harm’s way”. He is a fool and dishonors every American soldier when he says that. The 0bama regime has ripped the spirit straight out of our soldiers by their cowardly actions. Who wants to fight for a coward? NOBODY. I guess that’s the goal here; To demoralize our fighting forces. Soldiers should WANT to go into a situation like Benghazi that night. Putting their training to good use, to KILL the bad guys and to SAVE AMERICAN LIVES. This is a dream mission for most soldiers but 0bama didn’t want his Muslim brothers to be hurt or killed. 0bama is the enemy.
But within 30 seconds, Panetta concluded that the General in charge of our forces in the region did not know what was going on! Panetta is not that gifted, folks. This is an outrageous act--and I am not referring to the General who was clearly aware of the emergency involved.
If after taking emergency action, the General would have been shown to have been mistaken in his assessment, he would doubtless have been subject to discipline for haste. But that is not the situation. This sort of interference--deadly interference--with your commanders in the field, is the sort of thing that loses wars. If Panetta didn't understand what was going on, that is no reason to remove the general.
William Flax