Quotes by Jack Keane - Page 2

When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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Imposing
Success People Will
Bullies
Respond
Encouraged
Thugs
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Here's the problem the Free Syrian Army has. They really want to topple the regime in Damascus, and this is where most of the fight takes place, between Aleppo and Damascus for the Free Syrian Army.
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Army
Regime
Syrian
Topple
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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Applied
Authorities
Formulation
Maintain
Subordinate
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The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.
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Combat
Comprehensive
Islam
Radical
Radical Islam
Strategy
Alliance
Commission
Developed
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The homegrown terrorists are the most significant because any fighter returning from Syria to the United States would likely be identified and detected by our intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
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Enforcement
Homegrown
Law Enforcement
Significant
Syria
Agencies
Identified
Returning
Terrorists
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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Opportunity
Arab Spring
Democracy
Demonstrating
Economic
Islam
Radical
Radical Islam
Social Justice
Spring
Streets
Window
Arab
Nobody
Economic Opportunity
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ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
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Draws
Interpretation
Literal
Medieval
Muhammad
Prophet
Central
Undeniable
Writings
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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Accomplished
Army
Dave
Fighting
Force
Military
Sheer
Strategy
Page
Same Page
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Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.
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Fields
Making Money
Banks
Economically
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In 2011, General Alston, four-star commander in Iraq, recommended to the President, a force level of over 20,000. The President rejected it and pulled out all the forces with what is now known as a disastrous consequence in Syria.
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Consequence
Rejected
Syria
Commander
Disastrous
Pulled
Recommended
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Sometimes, our expectations of being all-knowing is somewhat unrealistic. At the end of the day, there are people out there who mean harm to us, are thinking about doing harm to us and motivated to do it, and we don't know what that is.
Jack Keane /
Harm
Motivated
Thinking Day People
Somewhat
End Of The Day
Unrealistic
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Disregard what Donald Trump said during the campaign, disregard tweets because it doesn't matter. When you become president - and you learn much more than you ever know as just an opinion leader on the sidelines - it changes everything.
Jack Keane /
Leader
Opinion
President
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
Jack Keane /
Dedicated
Defense
Gates
Losing
Among
Mr
Turning
Wars
Great Deal
However
Robert
Sacrificed
Secretaries
Served
Task
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Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That's an historical fact.
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Harmony
Confines
Historical Fact
Sectarian
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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Capable
Secure
Stable
Defending
Neighbors
Objective
Protecting
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In my own mind, it is profoundly disappointing to see what has occurred in Iraq given the sacrifice of our troops, given our commitment to removing Saddam Hussein and putting in place a fledgling government that would have a chance for a stable, secure Iraq.
Jack Keane /
Commitment
Disappointing
Hussein
Sacrifice
Secure
Stable
Troops
Occurred
Profoundly
Putting
Removing
Saddam Hussein
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The Pentagon is a series of wedges. So you have - the outer wedge has windows on the outside, and then inside of that, it has windows with an alleyway; then there's another wedge with windows outside, windows inside. And we call them the E Ring, the D Ring, the C Ring.
Jack Keane /
Pentagon
Series
Ring
Outer
Wedge
Windows
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In Washington, D.C., in 2006, Democrats had long since given up on the war in Iraq in terms of any tangible political support for it. The new factor was the Republicans were beginning to give up as well, and they were truly challenging the strategy and the lack of success.
Jack Keane /
Strategy
Tangible
Democrats
Factor
Republicans
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I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
Jack Keane /
Administration
Clinton
Other Countries
Sustaining
Bush Administration
Clinton Administration
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
Jack Keane /
High Standards
Standards
Fix
Miller
Phrase
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In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.
Jack Keane /
Decided
Force
Minimum
Months
Percent
President Obama
Rejected
Taliban
Obama
General
Campaign
Developed
Plan
Provided
Pull
Recommendation
Required
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
Jack Keane /
Covered
Neighborhood
Village
Al
Properly
Qaeda
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I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
Jack Keane /
War
Democracy
Long Time
Support
Useless
Appears
Begins
War Time Believe
Wars
Evaporate
Futile
Protracted
Quickly
Rather
Test
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The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.
Jack Keane /
Afghanistan
Judgment
Negotiation
Return
Significant
Taliban
Fundamental
Objective
Talks
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
Jack Keane /
Afghanistan
Bureaucracy
Command
Critical
Drones
Example
Gates
Honest
Iraq
Issues
Memoir
Military
Moving
Needed
Structure
Mistakes
Fix
Dysfunctional
For Example
Replace
Supply
Waited
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The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.
Jack Keane /
Catastrophe
Distasteful
Involvement
Middle East
Absolute
Wars
Impacted
Prevent
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Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area.
Jack Keane /
Activity
Benghazi
Despite
Destroyed
Diplomatic
Obvious
Al
Ambassador
Attack
Forced
Post
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Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose to prominence fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Afghan territory holds special significance to the group, which is committed to retaking it and re-establishing it as the base of a global movement.
Jack Keane /
Journey
Afghan
Committed
Fighting
Movement
Omar
Prominence
Significance
Site
Territory
Al
Base
Began
Bin
Global
Group
Holds
Main
Qaeda
Soviets
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In 2012, General Dempsey, General Petraeus directed the CIA, Secretary Panetta and Secretary Clinton recommended to the president to robustly arm and train the Syrian moderates. He says no. In 2013, conduct a military strike, same national security team, against the Assad regime because he violated the chemical red line. He says no.
Jack Keane /
Cia
Clinton
Moderates
National Security
Secretary
Arm
Chemical
Dempsey
Directed
Recommended
Red Line
Secretary Clinton
Strike
Syrian
Violated
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I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.
Jack Keane /
Contrary
Defeat
Disagree
Operations
Pakistan
Relentless
Strategic
Al
Attacks
Decentralized
Deliberately
Dominate
Muslim
Objective
Premise
Qaeda
Region
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By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.
Jack Keane /
Defeated
Insurgency
Militia
Al
Clearly
Iranians
Largely
Relatively
Pick
Qaeda
Stabilized
Sunni
Trained
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Senator Clinton is very knowledgeable about national security and is probably going to be strong on defense. I have no doubts whatsoever that if she were president in January '09, she would not act irresponsibly and issue orders to conduct an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the consequences, and squander the gains that have been made.
Jack Keane /
Clinton
Defense
Gains
January
National Security
Withdrawal
Consequences
Be Strong
Conduct
Senator
Doubts
Immediate
Orders
Regardless
Squander
Whatsoever
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The thing I have in common with Donald Trump is about a dozen years ago, we got a "Man of the Year" award in New York City, the Hotel Plaza from the USO. So I met him once and I found him to be very personable. He asked excellent questions throughout the 45 minutes that I was with him. Very, very engaged and very curious about the world and its complexity. Something, let's be honest, that he and many of his close in advisers that he's selected don't have a lot of knowledge about.
Jack Keane /
Men
Common
World
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