Leon Panetta, an inveterate Wolf in Sheep's clothing

Moreover, the checkered history of Panetta's hawkish record is well documented. As chief of the notorious CIA, he brazenly and vigorously defended the secretive renditions policy as well as its drone assassinations program. With even more hypocrisy and hubris, Panetta also painted the ilegal and immoral US Occupation of Afghanistan as a mission for "peace and freedom." Hence, no objective observer should be fooled by his latest posturing in Beijing that all Washington desires is genuine peace and stability in the Pacific region. If it were so, why has the United States surged its buildup of offensive forces to new or upgraded bases ranging from Australia, Philippines, Guam, So. Korea, Okinawa and Hawaii(in addition to seeking new base usage for its navy ships in Vietnam and Singapore)? Indeeed, Panetta's pathethic "double dribble" is just a PR fig-leaf cover for the same old "Full Spectrum Dominance" Iron Fist that has formed the consistent hallmark of US Imperial strategy ever since it unleashed 2 of the most terroristic--and history's only--nuclear attacks on civilians in August of 1945. Need we say more?