Leon Panetta
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What is the pushback?
Not much.
No.
After all, I was the CIA director.
It's a very self-contained operation, similar to the Marines.
Well... Yes.
I guess it'll depend on what happens with Kobani.
You know, look, when you're dealing with something like this and a terrorism threat like this that, frankly, you know, moved as quickly as it did, I think what happens in Washington is, you know,
How do we move on this?
How do we deal with this?
How do we confront it?
And so, you know, what the president decided is, look, we are going to confront ISIS.
We're going to put troops on the ground in Iraq to try to train the Iraqi security force to deal with it.
Not troops on the ground, though.
We're calling them advisers.
Yeah, but they wear boots.
It is serious chaos right now.
Right.
Nobody quite knows, you know, who's in the opposition, how many members of the opposition there are, how many groups there are.
I mean, that's how ISIS pretty much developed.