Leon Hadar, a Washington-based journalist and global affairs analyst, is the author of Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

里昂·哈达尔是一名以华盛顿为根据地的记者，也是一名国际事务分析家，是《沙漠风暴：中东地区的政策失败》(帕尔格雷夫·麦克米兰出版社，2005年)一书的作者。

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Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is bidding farewell to a distinguished Washington career that spanned more than forty years.

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