Sunday, November 3, 2013

"Panetta: US may have to use military force against Iran"

"While the US has “implemented unprecedented sanctions and pressure on Iran, we may very well have to use military force to back up our policy,” Leon Panetta said on Thursday night."
The former US defense secretary and CIA director made the remarks while addressing around 600 people at the Anti-Defamation League’s 100th annual meeting.
Panetta, who was receiving the ADL’s William and Naomi Gorowitz Institute Service Award, said the US needs to “maintain a healthy skepticism” when negotiating to suss out Iran’s true level of commitment to negotiations over its nuclear program.
“It is the Supreme Leader [Ali Khamenei] who is key, and he is not likely to give up [uranium] enrichment,” Panetta warned. “We have to remain strong. We have to remain consistent.”
The Jerusalem Post

11 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Reading the article, its not clear what the US policy is.

I blame the writer for not discerning it ;)

AllenS said...

The Jews need to fire up their bullshit detectors.

ricpic said...

Panetta's a Democrat hack. His job was to tell the Jewish audience what they wanted to hear in order to keep them in the corral. Like his boss Barry is ever going to lift a finger to help Israel. That antisemitic prick's primary foreign policy goal has been to surround Israel with Muslim Brotherhood led countries. He tried in Egypt and failed, so far. He tried in Syria and walked us to the edge of WW III. What do you think Benghazi was about? Running guns to the Muslim Brotherhood/Al Qaeda in Syria. Only the "brilliant" Jews are stupid enough to suicide themselves for Barry.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

“The fact remains that we live in a very dangerous world,” he said. “We continue to have threats from North Korea as they test nuclear weapons. We have instability and fragility in the Middle East. All of this happens at a time when we are imperiled by gridlock in Washington.”

Really? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Gridlock = Poor democrats are limited by the Constitution and therefore unable to roll over everyone with asphalt rollers- cart blanche.
Damn that Constitution. Something must be done.

In the mean time, hand all the democrats golden statues, blue ribbons, and Noble peace prizes.

The Dude said...

Leon "Weasel Word" Panetta - you can take what he says to the bank. In this case he said "may". Wow, what stunning statesmanship.

But the administration does need to distract us from Obamacare, so nuke away, Leon. Serve your president.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

What BS that is, Obama intends to run out the clock and then turn the problem over to whoever follows him. Problem solved.

Valerie Jarrett approves.

edutcher said...

May?

But, since Panetta probably did an end run around ValJar (funny how the real POTUS is somebody else when there's a sociopathic Demo), he gets a smidge of slack.

Shouting Thomas said...

We "have to!" God is forcing our hand!

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

You commenters can rag on Panetta all you want but I think we should feel some degree of gratitude for the man and the cured pork product that bears his name.

JAL said...

WHERE is Code Pink when we need them?

Or Inga.

JAL said...

Sorry.