3 December 2020 Leon Panetta Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That’s really the measure of success for the United States.
3 December 2020 Leon Panetta Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it’s much more partisan and much more divided.
3 December 2020 Leon Panetta You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.
3 December 2020 Leon Panetta After every major conflict – World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union – what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
