Leon Panetta is a scary, scary man [View all]

[MannyGoldstein]

Listened to a podcast today, of Leon Panetta on the Diane Rehm show.

Holy $&@#.

Rehm made a full-frontal accusation that Panetta threw the President under the bus. Panetta responded that he wished his critics would read the book. Then Panetta criticized the President for giving up against the Republicans.

Speaking of people who might not give up... Panetta made sure that Benghazi got discussed, and to tell us that it was a tragedy but we did the best we could. I think he was working that in for Hillary, to complement the "we need tough leadership that won't give up" meme.

But for me, the highlight of the show was Terra! Terra!

Apparently, we have a terrible Terra! problem. ISIS is truely the worst worst-enemy-ever. An even-eviler and better trained foe than al Qaeda, and it's metastasized so it can be anywhere.

Terrible, terrifying Terra! It will require 30 years to defeat our newest most-terrible foe, and boots will be needed on the ground, but definitely not US boots. Someone else's. Hopefully someone else will step up to do it, that's not a bunch of savage scoundrels themselves. But it has to be done. Hell, Obama should have done it long time ago. Then whoever offs ISIS can go on to off Assad.

Panetta's got big plans for decades of bloodletting.

Now, I'm not a licensed therapist of any sort, nor have I stayed at any chain of hotels that imbue me with great intelligence... but I think that Mr. Panetta is dangerously crazy. What has this country come to, that people with such a bias for blood and death run large swaths of our government?

It is a sickness.

We need to say no.