Watched the video...what a joke Panetta is.
Standing there telling a group of combat veterans about “the nature of war”...
What a bright, shining, tower of intellect he is...and courage too...let’s not forget courage!!!
POS...total and complete.
There is a more worrisome situation here.
What if:
It had been Obama instead of Panetta?
What if:
The order had been for the Marines to disarm, they obey, only to find the Afghanis in attendance were not so disarmed?
What if:
The civilian leadership thought they could make a sacrificial peace offering to their Muslim hosts by giving such orders, then claiming plausible deniability when Muslim extremists made the slaughter of the sacrifice?
What if:
Any American serviceman in theater hears such commands again?