I don’t remember Leon Panetta being this big of a nut back in 1990s with Bill Clinton or when he served in Congress. Either it’s something in the Obama Kool-Aide, or all Marxist Democrats. In an totally unprecedented move, Leon Panetta had the Marines “disarm” themselves before he gave a speech to them in Afghanistan. I guess the disarming worked really well because a Muslim Afghan interpreter stole a pickup truck from a British service member, injured a coalition service member, and was carrying a lighter and gasoline, and lit himself on fire. The Muslim was eventually captured, but that would have been really good with unarmed Marines wouldn’t it?
In his remarks to the group, Panetta said, “We will be challenged by our enemies, we will be challenged by ourselves, we will be challenged by the hell of war itself.”