Posted on 08/27/2021 7:19:55 PM PDT by blam
Appearing Thursday on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront, Obama Defense Secretary Leon Panetta judged that the U.S. military will have to return to Afghanistan to confront ISIS despite President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. forces from the war-torn country after 20 years of war.
(Watch from: 14:55)
A transcript is as follows:
ERIN BURNETT: So [Biden] is sticking with the August 31st deadline. He’s made it clear that even after that they’ll do whatever they can, but he’s sticking with it. He is not extending it and that it “is what it is,” is what he says. Do you agree with that? Is it right to stick with this August 31st date?
DEFENSE SEC. PANETTA: Erin, bottom line is that our work is not done in Afghanistan. I know we’ll be removing our troops by a certain date, but the bottom line is our work is not done. We’re going to have to go after ISIS. I’m glad the president said that we’re going to hunt them down and make them pay a price for what they did in killing our warriors and we should. We’re going to have to go back in to get ISIS. We’re probably going to go have to go back in when al-Qaeda resurrects itself as they will with this Taliban. They’ve gave safe haven to al-Qaeda before. They’ll probably do it again. I understand that we’re trying to get our troops out of there, but the bottom line is we can leave a battlefield but we can’t leave the war on terrorism which still is a threat to our security.
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Grab a rifle and lead the way, Leon.
Biden saying “I’ll hunt them down” almost as big a lie as no fracking, I’ll be tough on China, and America is “back” (with one foot in the grave under the Rats).
You go, we’ll see you off.
No “ban on” fracking (although President Trump got Sleepy to confess to this lie in the last debate).
“And remember, with the women and children, don’t lead them so much.”
Dear Patriots, don’t let your kids join the military. The democrat taliban party will just send them out to get murdered.
Music to Let Cheney’s ears
Oh, yeah?
That’s going to be really popular with the American public. /S
Like John Belushi in Animal House looking behind for his supporters and nobody’s there. And that was after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” ~ Afghan people
By the time Biden’s administration gets organized to walk back its stupidity, those stuck in Afghanistan will be dead.
So what are we accomplishing here?
DS War monger.
Endless war
These clowns couldn’t do it right the first time, nor the second, third or fourth time because they never wanted to win. FU Panetta you leftist bastard.
No US military deaths for the joek and Milley-Vanilli.
No. And this ahole is part of the reason we were there so lonng.
Y’all show us how it’s done, Leon. We can get you a rifle, somewhere, it will be waiting for you in Kabul...
We will have no allies.
Russia is about to step up to the plate.
So you want my two Marine sons, my son in basic at Fort Sill, and my foster son who is 12 years in Army, to leave their service? Four boys raised patriotic conservatives. Makes sense……………….
Huh? The enemy has more weapons in place than we have. The only weapons we have that would do anything to kill the bastard are nukes.
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