Fmr Defense Secretary Panetta: the War in Iran ‘Is Very Much Turning Into Trump’s Vietnam’
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Ex-defense secretary says 'Trump's Vietnam' in Iran will haunt us for years
As the war with Iran drags on with no conclusion in sight and its consequences continue to spin out, former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta has a dire assessment of the situation: the conflict in the Middle East is “Trump’s Vietnam.”Panetta — who presided over the Pentagon during the Obama administration and helped lead the operation that killed Osama bin Laden — delivered this alarming appraisal on Thursday while appearing on CN…
Leon Panetta Calls Iran War 'Trump's Vietnam' While CNN's Keiler Calls It A 'Quagmire'
No matter how one may feel about President Trump and the war with Iran, an objective observer should easily be able to distinguish between the good and evil involved in the conflict. Additionally someone, who, by their current or former position, should be aware of our recent history, should recognize the differences between this relatively short-lived conflict and previous longer wars that the U.S. has been involved in. But Thursday, on CNN's N…
Fmr Defense Secretary Panetta: the war in Iran ‘is very much turning into Trump’s Vietnam’
Leon Panetta, Former Defense Secretary and CIA Director under Obama, tells CNN’s Brianna Keilar that the war in Iran “is very much turning into Trump’s Vietnam.” He explains his thinking.
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elDiarioARAlthough much shorter, the Trump war in the Middle East has exposed the strategic weakness of U.S. and Iran military power to exchange missile and drone attacks reaching Bahrain and Kuwait In a 1965 speech to justify the Vietnam war, then U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson said the goal was to ensure that “each country can forge its own destiny” because only in such a world could the U.S. secure its own freedom. But he also admitted that “these we…
‘How could a victory and a war of the dimension of Vietnam be digested relatively quickly by imperialism and how it was in a very rapid state of conducting a controversy such as the division of real socialism and then collapsed the USSR, how this "end of history" was not one and how the victory proved such a shake-up that today the Iranian getaway can have more destructive consequences for the hegemon than the titanic confrontation of the sixtie…
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