Former U.S. Secretary Of Defense Panetta Regrets That The U.S. Did Not Arm Syria's Moderate Rebels In 2012

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Says Obama Helped ISIS Grow By Ignoring National Security Team's Advice To Arm Syrian Rebels -- Daily Mail

* Panetta said 'we pay the price' because Obama decided to overrule his secretary of state, CIA director and chairman of the Joint Chiefs
* Asked if Obama made a mistake by refusing to arm moderate Syrian rebels early on, Panetta said 'that would've helped'
* He also clashed with Obama's Iraq policy, saying that leaving some troops behind 'would've given us greater leverage over Iraq's government
* In August Hillary Clinton said it was a 'failure' to leave Syria's rebels to fend for themselves, and 'left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled'
* Bill Clinton now says 'it was an argument she lost within the administration'

Former Obama administration Pentagon chief Leon Panetta said Sunday that the president overruled nearly his entire national security team and decided not to arm moderate Syrian rebel groups early on, a decision that helped the ISIS terror army gain power.

Panetta also said he favored leaving a residual force of U.S. troops behind in Iraq instead of withdrawing them, another opinion Obama ignored.

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