O’Reilly Grills Leon Panetta: Hasn’t Obama’s Foreign Policy Been a Failure?

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O’Reilly Grills Leon Panetta: Hasn’t Obama’s Foreign Policy Been a Failure?
by Josh Feldman | 8:31 pm, October 7th, 2014

Bill O’Reilly put former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on the hot seat tonight, and repeatedly grilled him on whether President Obama‘s foreign policy has been effective or a failure. Panetta insisted to O’Reilly that he doesn’t doubt Obama’s commitment to fighting America’s enemies, there’s just a question of whether he’s made the right decisions in carrying out that fight.

For example, Panetta says Obama did support providing a troop presence of thousands in Iraq, as he and others recommended, but the issue was “how hard did he fight to make it happen.”



O’Reilly asked Panetta why it feels like the Obama administration is taken by surprise in almost everything. Panetta said that since he’s left the White House, Obama has learned the importance of fighting ISIS, to which O’Reilly responded, “Oh, bull.”

When O’Reilly pressed Panetta for a straight answer on whether Obama’s foreign policy is an effective one, Panetta hesitated. He preferred to blame “mixed messages” from the White House as opposed to strong leadership from the previous few years.

[massadvj]

It was quite a good interview.  You could see Panetta was clearly having a difficult time defending OPapaDoc, and reading his body language and lack of enthusiasm in Panetta's answers, he was not particularly enamored with his former employer.  Panetta didn't throw OpapaDoc under the bus, but he didn't give him any kind of endorsement, either.

[xfreeper]

For years Panetta has been a competent player. The dems would be wise to draft him for 2016