Blinks are we both "seeing" the same thing...the look to the top of my post please..where it says according to the Ap (the associated press) and then down to the part where the sentence you highlighted is about stepping up is cleary been made by Panetta.

I am certian we have assests on the ground (boots as you call them, and actual military ones at that even if they are there incognito such as "Combat controllers" or FAC's as you call them and "cia types" and perhaps even some green berets (dont they specialize in training and subversion of such forces behind lines?). Im wondering if we had them there before the revolution as well.

I dont think anyone is abiding by anything anymore other than to pay lip service to the massess.