Leon Panetta: U.S. and allies ‘have a responsibility’ to retaliate against threats in Middle East

In the Middle East, Hamas, Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis rebels and other Iranian-backed groups are raising alarms far beyond Gaza’s borders. Former CIA Director and former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss the stakes of rising tensions between Iran and Israel, and U.S. strategy in the Middle East. “Is this a tense moment? You bet it is. Is there a danger of escalation in the Middle East? You bet. There's a real danger, particularly now, but at the same time, we have a responsibility to send a clear message that the United States and our allies are not going to simply stand by and allow these attacks to take place without a response,” Panetta says. “I don't think anybody, Iran, the United States, the Houthis, Hezbollah, I don't think they're interested in going into a full scale war, they'll pay a heavy price.”


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[badidea]

America's war fetish is disgusting.

[mr]

All these old men, want nothing but wars they won't have to fight.

[liberty-matrix]

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” ~ Malcolm X

[Izzy-zhck]

we are bombing other people and claiming to be the victim?

[gloonnug]

MSNBC has a responsibility to deliver honest and objective news to their viewers.. why don’t they?

[RavensWillReplaceUs]

Corporate war interests benefit most.
Which countries make the most weapons?
There's the answer.

[stevewillhite]

Defense contractors are in heavenly bliss right now.

[OrbitalTrails]

''We like war, we're a warlike people'' ~ George Carlin

[shirk_slayer]

How are countries on the other side of the world a threat to America if we choose not to get involved?

[JCcollazos]

Two dinosaurs discussing nonsense. These corporate hacks need to retire.

[mohmedhassan]

In March 2019, Netanyahu told his Likud colleagues: "Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas... This is part of our strategy to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.
"Former Israeli official Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who wasthe Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s, told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a "counterweight" to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat. Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009 that Hamas is "Israel's creation." Hamas was the result of this, as Mehdi Hasan explains. First, the Israelis helped build up a militant strain of Palestinian political Islam, in the form of Hamas and its Muslim Brotherhood precursors; then, the Israelis switched tack and tried to bomb, besiege, and blockade it out of existence.

[seacaster]

These war mongers are irresponsible. The rich protecting the rich at the expense of the average person.

[tore]

Protect "Economic interests" aka money of rich people.

[Dead_Again]

Dude I was JUST over there in the last round of wars. We dont need to lose anyone else.
Can we help ourselves here in the US and assume a defensive position for a while?

[Dingleberry]

They gonna bring Liz Cheney's dad on next ?

[SubFlow]

Texas has a responsibility to defend it's southern border.

[turbonerd]

Leon should be in jail considering all the things he’s been implicated in. At the very least investigated.

[bruceleewang]

We the People should not worry about other Countries We have to first focus on U S

[JoeBeThere]

Two people who have been shown to be untruthful in the past. Why trust them? Would you trust someone in your family or your business who habitually lied to you?

[coleengoodell]

No, they have a responsibility to stop a genocide.