PANETTA RESPONSE - Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta responds to a question from the audience during a televised conversation with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at National Defense University in Washington, D.C., Aug. 16, 2011. DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey
Panetta Sees No Need To Ease Drone Strikes -- Washington Times
‘We’re defending our country’.
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on Tuesday rejected calls for the United States to throttle back the aggressive military campaign of drone strikes against al Qaeda and other targeted terrorists in Pakistan’s tribal areas, in response to criticism of the strikes by a retired head of U.S. intelligence.
“We’re protecting our national security,” Mr. Panetta told an audience at the National Defense University. “We’re defending our country.”
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My Comment: ‘We’re defending our country’ .... hmmm .... Panetta sums it up briefly and to the point.
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