'We're going to have to go back in': Obama's
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
says US forces will have to
RETURN to Afghanistan to tackle terror
threats posed by Taliban and ISIS-K
Posted By: Ribicon, 8/27/2021 9:27:46 AM
Leon Panetta said on Thursday that the Unites States military will have to return to Afghanistan to tackle terror threats posed by Taliban and ISIS-K after a suicide attack killed 13 U.S. troops and at least 90 Afghans. Paneta, a Democrat who served as Defense Secretary in the Obama administration, said in an interview with Erin Burnett for her CNN show OutFront that the withdrawal of American troops left the United States in a 'very dangerous and difficult situation.'(Snip)'The bottom line is, our work is not done. We're going to have to go after ISIS. I'm glad the president said we're going to hunt them down
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Former CIA Director, Secretary of Defense, and longtime Clinton insider Leon Panetta voiced no objections to Bidet's plans for a botched withdrawal, to include arming the Taliban with a vast array of advanced weaponry. But man of integrity that he is, he now offers to go back in and set things right.