No matter how one may feel about President Trump and the war with Iran, an objective observer should easily be able to distinguish between the good and evil involved in the conflict. Additionally someone, who, by their current or former position, should be aware of our recent history, should recognize the differences between this relatively short-lived conflict and previous longer wars that the U.S. has been involved in. But Thursday, on CNN's News Central, host Brianna Keiler and her guest tossed objectivity and awareness right out the window. Keiler began the segment by pointing out that the terrorist group Hezbollah, has rejected the cease fire agreed to by Israel and Lebanon, and that while President Trump says a deal with Iran could come as early as this weekend, Iran's Foreign Minister says no formal negotiations are currently underway. She then welcomed in former Defense Secretary and Former CIA Director during the Obama administration, Leon Panetta, who quickly equated the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran's regime to Trump and his administration: I think the bottom line, Brianna, is you don't know who to trust right now with regards to these negotiations. There's a hard line regime on the other side. I don't think you can trust what a hard line regime says. But at the same time, I'm not sure that the President is very credible either. He's been saying for a long time that within a few days, we were going to have an agreement. Now he's saying it's going to happen on the weekend.... We don't we don't know who we're negotiating with in Iran. We're not quite sure who's doing the negotiating for the United States....These discussions are stuck. Cease fires are not holding. I do not see this going very well at all.     Keiler then attempted to get Panetta to weigh in on differences between the U.S. and Israel, and how that may be effecting prospects for an agreement with Iran, but after glossing over that issue, Panetta went right back after Trump and invoked the Vietnam War: PANETTA: I think what you're seeing is that, this war is very much turning into Trump's Vietnam. In Vietnam, we negotiated, but in the end, the North Vietnamese basically, took total control. We were lucky to get our forces out. I think we're heading in the same direction with this war. KEILER: You are describing a grave mistake that ends in a quagmire then, is that right?     A three month war is hardly in the same category as the 20-year wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan, which are commonly referred to by the term quagmire. Panetta seemed to be on board, but quickly strayed away from the Vietnam analogy, and back to the nuts and bolts of the present conflict: PANETTA: Exactly, exactly. In the end, as long as we have a hard line regime in Iran, that cannot be trusted, whatever you work out, for example, on the Strait of Hormuz, is going to be temporary at best because Iran remains in control of the Straits of Hormuz. And if you're trying to work out some kind of nuclear agreement based on the word of the hard line regime, they cannot be trusted.... I don't see any progress being made on trying to ultimately end this war, and that's what's of concern. But Keiler seemed obsessed on furthering the Vietnam analogy, and pressed Panetta to, "point to the specific time or series of events that has you thinking this is turning in to, as you put it, Trump's Vietnam": PANETTA: In Vietnam, we never got a straight story from the administration as to what was happening in Vietnam, and I'm not sure we're getting a straight story right now from this administration as to what's happening in negotiations with Iran. Secondly, there was a series of negotiations. We were able to kind of resolve some issues. We were able to get our forces out. But in the end, North Vietnam won that war. And what I sense here is that no matter what we try to negotiate with a hard line regime in Iran, they're going to be in control of the Strait of Hormuz. And they are going to do everything they can to try to continue enrichment so that ultimately, they can develop a nuclear weapon....Because in the end, it is a hard line regime that controls Iran, and we haven't changed that.     Trump's Vietnam, a quagmire, don't know who to trust. Left wing media bias in full force. After all, this is CNN.