leon panetta lands in afghanistan and there s an explosion first off and wow, is this an attack? so the wisdom of the general on the ground said i have a great idea. when the secretary of defense goes to make a speech in afghanistan, being that the the horrible massacre took place at the hands of, it seems, one of our troops, let s show a little bit of trust to the afghan community by telling all the marines to put down their weapons during the speech. yeah, you know, when i saw this, i thought that can t possibly be true but it is. it happened at camp leatherneck, there were 200 men and women. some were u.s. marines. some were afghans and so here s what the official at the helman, the top nato guy said.