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Related: About this forumPanetta: '30-year war' and a leadership test for Obama
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/06/leon-panetta-memoir-worthy-fights/16737615/Panetta: '30-year war' and a leadership test for Obama
Susan Page, USA TODAY 1:54 p.m. EDT October 6, 2014
CARMEL VALLEY, Calif. Americans should be braced for a long battle against the brutal terrorist group Islamic State that will test U.S. resolve and the leadership of the commander in chief, says Leon Panetta, who headed the CIA and then the Pentagon as Al Qaeda was weakened and Osama bin Laden killed.
"I think we're looking at kind of a 30-year war," he says, one that will have to extend beyond Islamic State to include emerging threats in Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and elsewhere.
In his first interview about his new book, Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace, Panetta argues that decisions made by President Obama over the past three years have made that battle more difficult an explosive assessment by a respected policymaker of the president he served.
Even before it's published Tuesday by Penguin Press, the 512-page book has provoked rebukes at the State Department and by Vice President Biden. But Panetta says he was determined to write a book that was "honest," including his high regard for the president on some fronts and his deep concern about his leadership on others.
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Panetta: '30-year war' and a leadership test for Obama (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Oct 2014
OP
Leon Panetta's a backstabbing dick who's doing Hillary's dirty work of hammering Obama
TwilightGardener
Oct 2014
#3
Wannabe tough guys like Panetta are why our foreign policy is such an incoherent mess.
bemildred
Oct 2014
#4
Renew Deal
(81,901 posts)1. I heard the 30 year war stuff after 9/11
And it's turning out to be accurate.
unhappycamper
(60,364 posts)2. All America's adventures wiil bite us in the economic ass.
Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria.......
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)3. Leon Panetta's a backstabbing dick who's doing Hillary's dirty work of hammering Obama
for her.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)4. Wannabe tough guys like Panetta are why our foreign policy is such an incoherent mess.
Neocon dick-wavers who do not, in fact, know shit.