Panetta: ‘Frankly This President Is About Marketing Himself’

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PANETTA: "The reality is that the president ignores the history of that alliance and what it's done, in terms of fighting the Soviet Union, bringing down the walls in Germany, helping us after 9/11, continuing to help us in Afghanistan. NATO is important to our national security. And very frankly this president is about marketing himself as opposed to dealing with what history is about. He wants to go in, he wants to be showing that he is a bully, he can threaten people. And the only reason they’re responding is because he is threatening them. That’s -- that's the act that the president is engaged in here. and my concern is it undermines the trust of those we need if we ever have to face a national security threat."