Posted on 09/29/2024 7:08:20 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta referred to Israel’s pager operation as “terrorism” during a recent interview with CBS News.
In Lebanon last week, mass explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to members of the Iran-back Shiite group Hezbollah. The attack has been widely attributed to Israel’s intelligence organization Mossad, leading to the deaths of dozens of people and wounding thousands.
During an interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, Panetta told anchor Lee Cowan that the action’s by Israel are “a form of terrorism.” Panetta then added that the actions by Israel could lead to more deadly operations going forward in the war.
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...Hezbollah has some 150,000 rockets and missiles, including some capable of striking anywhere in Israel, and that the group has fired some 9,000 rockets and drones since last October...
This coming from a former chief of staff during the Clinton administration who was directly involved with the research that Clinton used to bomb a pharma factory in the Sudan in 1997. Speaks for itself.
wy69
Understood
IDF needs to clean that terrorist nest out now. By the most efficient means.
Thanks. But I think the reference I made was too subtle for the hordes at FR to pick up. This site just ain’t what it used to be.
It’s terrorism to blow up terrorists….wtf?
Yep..I call it a brilliant move.
In the Marine Corp hymm it references “to the Shores of Tripoly”.
President Thomas Jefferson sent Marines to Tripoly (Libya) to attack Muslim pirates attacking ships in the Mediterranean. We have been dealing with these vermin for centuries. Go IDF!!!!!
Leon was ever the mediocre US Rep from Monterey-Salinas, CA. His CIA creds are zero. His opinion wrongheaded, and irrelevant.
Leon was ever the mediocre US Rep from Monterey-Salinas, CA. His CIA creds are zero. His opinion wrongheaded, and irrelevant.
Panetta’s been getting into the Galiano to the extent that he hears the singing of the little ballerina inside the bottle.
Senator Sessions:
Well, I’m all for having international support, but I’m really baffled by an idea that somehow an international assembly provides a legal basis for the United States military to be deployed in combat. I don’t believe it’s close to being correct. It provides no legal authority. The only legal authority that is required to deploy the United States military is of the congress and the president and the law of the Constitution.
Secretary Panetta:
Let me just for the record be clear again. Senator, so there is no misunderstanding, When it comes to the national defense of this country, the President of the United States has the authority under the constitution to act to defend this country. And we will. If it comes to an operation where we are trying to build a coalition of nations to work together to go in and operate as we did in Libya, or Bosnia, or for that matter, Afghanistan, we want to do it with permissions either by NATO or the international community
Leon Panetta Surfaces – Sweating Bullets and With a Frog In His Throat…
1/6/2017, 6:19:29 PM · by HarleyLady27 · 62 replies
The Conservative Treehouse ^ | Posted on January 6, 2017 | by sundance
No-one amid all current tentacles and story lines is at a higher risk from a President-Elect Donald Trump full public vetting of the intelligence community than former Obama CIA Director Leon Panetta. When President Obama signed the original 2011 ‘finding memo’ authorizing covert CIA action in Libya it was Leon Panetta who carried it out. Both the Libyan intervention and the initial Syrian intervention were joint White House regime change operations began during Hillary Clinton’s tenure. Leon Panetta and Hillary Clinton were both carrying out Obama’s policy.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3511614/posts
CBS Evening News
Former CIA director on “worst-case scenario” in Syrian civil war
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CBS Jul 17, 2016
“Day One” is a multi-part series in which CBS News’ Margaret Brennan speaks with former U.S. government officials on the major foreign policy issues the next president will inherit on the first day of their presidency.
The next president will face countless challenges on day one. Among the biggest is the ongoing civil war in Syria. Margaret Brennan spoke with Leon Panetta — a former CIA director, defense secretary, and White House chief of staff — about the road ahead for U.S. involvement in the war-torn nation.
LEON PANETTA: Inaction is not an option in Syria because if you stand back, the situation is gonna get worse. Look, the best-case scenario would be to have Assad step down, to have a transitional government be able to establish itself representing each of the factions that are there — the Sunnis, the Kurds, the Shias. And then, frankly, have the Russians and whatever is left of the Syrian forces join with the United States in going after ISIS to truly defeat them. That would be the best-case scenario.
MARGARET BRENNAN: What are the odds of that?
PANETTA: Not very good. Not very good.
BRENNAN: What’s the worst-case scenario?
PANETTA: The worst-case scenario is that Assad continues to remain in power, continues to kill Syrians. That refugees continue to flow out of Syria, that the Russians continue to have a presence there and continue to attack our moderate forces that we’re trying to train in Syria. And that ISIS then uses that and creates an even bigger base from which to conduct attacks against this country. That’s the worst-case scenario.
BRENNAN: Sounds like you’re describing what’s happening now.
PANETTA: It is what’s happening now. And it’s what can continue to happen in the future if we don’t deal with it.
BRENNAN: There are around 300 special operators in Syria right now. Will the next president have to commit more American boots on the ground?
PANETTA: I think the likelihood is that the next president is gonna have to consider adding additional special forces on the ground to try to assist those moderate forces that are taking on ISIS, and that are taking on Assad’s forces. And we have to increase our air strikes. We’ve got to do all of those things in order to put increasing pressure on ISIS but also on Assad. We can’t surrender one objective for the other. We’ve gotta continue to press on both fronts.
BRENNAN: Is it possible to defeat ISIS without challenging Assad?
PANETTA: I think it’s very difficult as we’ve seen to conduct effective operations against ISIS when we’re dealing with Assad’s forces pressing us in different places. And when we’re dealing with the Russians who go in and literally bomb the very forces that we’re training to go after Assad and to go after ISIS. We cannot have that situation continue in the future. Protect our forces there.
BRENNAN: So the U.S. has to confront Russia?
PANETTA: We are hoping upon hope that the Russians will do the right thing. They’re not gonna do the right thing without pressure. They’re not gonna do the right thing without giving our diplomats greater leverage than what they have now to deal with the Russians. To do that we have got to make very clear that we have objectives to achieve, that we intend to press to achieve those objectives, and that we will not allow them to divert us from the goals of defending ourselves.
Here’s where the candidates stand:
Hillary Clinton wants to increase airstrikes against ISIS. She said she would arm the moderate rebels, and pressure Russia to get out of Syria. We should add that Panetta is advising the Clinton campaign.
Donald Trump has announced he’d declare war on ISIS, and he wouldn’t rule out more U.S. troops on the ground — although he offered few details.
Panetta is past his expiration date. Anything he says should be considered for what it is, racist and antisemitic. The old fool should have been imprisoned years ago.
I call it payback!
“Leon Panetta should just stick to making bread.”
The ringpiece would suck no matter what he did.
Panetta recognises that if the IDF can do this to Hezbola, it could do it to him.
Panetta left out the prefix “Counter”. Someone, presumably the Israelis, engaged in very effective counterterrorism that disrupted a major attack. That this op worked so well indicates the US had no involvement or advance knowledge.
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