More Evidence Of Obama's Incompetence

From Fox News: Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Sunday that he believes the Islamic State terror group was able to flourish in part because the U.S. entered the conflict in Syria too late, saying the Obama administration should have armed the country’s moderate rebels earlier.
Panetta, who served in the Obama administration from July 2011 to February 2013, said in an interview on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that he was in support of arming the moderate Syrian rebels in 2012, along with several other members of the administration.
“I think that would've helped,” Panetta said. “And I think in part, we pay the price for not doing that in what we see happening with ISIS.”
According to CBS News, Panetta writes in his new book “Worthy Fights” that he, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the director of the CIA and the joint chiefs chairman all urged Obama to arm the rebels at a 2012 meeting.
“The real key was how can we develop a leadership group among the opposition that would be able to take control,” Panetta said. “And my view was to have leverage to do that; we would have to provide the weapons and the training in order for them to really be willing to work with us in that effort.”
However, Obama decided against it...
Panetta also discussed the war in Iraq; saying that when the U.S. withdrew from the country in 2011 he was not confident pulling out was the right decision.
“I really thought that it was important for us to maintain a presence in Iraq,” he said. “The decision was that we ought to at least try to maintain 8,000 to 10,000 U.S. troops there, plus keeping some of our intelligence personnel in place, to be able to continue the momentum in the right direction. And frankly, having those troops there I think would've given us greater leverage on (former Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki) to try to force him to do the right thing as well.”
Panetta said he believes the Islamic State is a real threat to America, and will take a “long time” to destroy.  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/22/panetta-says-us-paying-price-for-not-arming-syrian-rebels/
Of course Panetta is a Democrat and was in Obama's cabinet, so ripping Obama is kind of surprising.
Except when you think about this:
Panetta is a huge Clinton loyalist.  With Hillary probably running to be President Bitch, Panetta is ripping Obama to make Hillary look better and to distance between Clinton and Obama.
But no matter how you put it, this makes Obama look foolish and incompetent and our 40 country allies coalition who Obama refuses to say they are, will take notice and trust Obama even less.