Posted on 11/21/2016 11:54:19 AM PST by PROCON
In an interview with National Public Radio on Sunday, retired Army Gen. Jack Keane said that the U.S. military could defeat the Islamic State if the commander-in-chief asks for and implements its plan.
Host Rachel Martin was interviewing Keane about his decision not to accept President-elect Donald Trump’s offer to serve as Defense secretary, but the report included questions about Trump’s remarks on the campaign trail that he knows more than the generals when it comes to defeating ISIS.
“The military knows how to fight a war,” Keane said. “And I told [Trump] - if you're going to do what you suggest - said you were going to do and ask for a campaign plan from the Pentagon for how to defeat ISIS, believe me, you'll get a comprehensive campaign plan with many options in it that this president has never asked for.”
Keane said that, in fact, Obama routinely did not take the advice given to him by the military or, if taken, “reduced” those recommendations.
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Obama never asked for a plan to bring down ISIS because he wants the budding caliphate to expand in size and to eventually vanquish Israel.
Trump's election resounds well in Israel.
Huh. Why not?
Of course Zero didn’t ask. That would be suicide.
Manchuria candidate.
Is there any doubt whose side he(Obama) is on?
Host Rachel Martin was interviewing Keane about his decision not to accept President-elect Donald Trump’s offer to serve as Defense secretary”
WTF?
NPR really thinks that Trump asked a guy to serve, and was turned down?
Did that happen? Did I miss something?
HYPERLINK "https://militarybases.com/saudi-arabia/"
The OIL MUST FLOW!
Remember those early ISIS convoys that freely roamed and invaded entire cities UNCHECKED and UNAFRAID of any airstrikes? 0dunga should be held to account for WHY he let them proliferate like a cancer, UNCHECKED.
no because he’s too busy turning it into a gay military social experiment AND he’s too busy ordering hte military to ‘prepare for global warming’ instead of concentrating on the world’s issues at hand- There was a report out today stating that the military will be ‘focused on the threat of global climate change’
Dear leader has even ‘fundamentally changed’ the military into a huge social experiment and global scam enforcer
The NPR story said that he turned down a position in the new administration for family reasons. His wife died last year.
Why is anyone surprised that obummer never asked for a plan to defeat ISIS from the Defense Department????
Why would he? They function as an army-for-hire against the Assad regime in Syria. He pretty much likes that because the Saudis do.
Obama needed ISIS to move all those Muslims to the West
And Obama will use ISIS against Trump and America after Trump takes office.
In an interview with National Public Radio on Sunday, retired Army Gen. Jack Keane said that the U.S. military could defeat the Islamic State if the commander-in-chief asks for and implements its plan.
Host Rachel Martin was interviewing Keane about his decision not to accept President-elect Donald Trump’s offer to serve as Defense secretary, but the report included questions about Trump’s remarks on the campaign trail that he knows more than the generals when it comes to defeating ISIS.
“The military knows how to fight a war,” Keane said. “And I told [Trump] - if you’re going to do what you suggest - said you were going to do and ask for a campaign plan from the Pentagon for how to defeat ISIS, believe me, you’ll get a comprehensive campaign plan with many options in it that this president has never asked for.”
Keane said that, in fact, Obama routinely did not take the advice given to him by the military or, if taken, “reduced” those recommendations.
“In dealing with this question (about the generals) and that statement that you’re referencing, that’s an interesting one,” Keane said. “And I do have an opportunity to point out to him that the issue here had nothing to do with the generals.
“It had to do with the president’s policy,” Keane said. “As a matter of fact, as I’ve said publicly, in terms of force levels that our generals have made, a few of the commanders - those in Afghanistan and those in Iraq - the president - President Obama never accepted a force-level recommendation from them one time.
“He always rejected it and either did not accept it at all or dramatically reduced it, as he did with Generals McChrystal and Petraeus when they decided to conduct - escalate the war in Afghanistan to put in place,” Keane said.
“So you’re saying the executive branch, in the end, has a lot of control anyway,” Martin said.
“Yeah, exactly,” Keane said. “I mean, these were the president’s policy decisions. The military executes policy decisions.”
But was he actually offered?
0dunga is the master of EXPANDING THE MUSLIM CALIPHATE WORLDWIDE.
Then screw every general and admiral who didn’t resign or retire early under Obama.
War is misery.
And we kept just enough misery going to take care of politics.
And people died.
Our people.
Their people.
Just to take care of politics.
Screw Obama and every general or admiral who put up with this bullshit.
May they all rot in hell.
Now what could possibly be the reason for that ? ?
Jugears is a moslem, and a traitor, and the most loathsome piece of sh!t to ever defile the American political landscape.
And THAT, considering the historical competition, is sayin' something !
Exactly. Brilliant strategy when you think about it. Far easier to create a humanitarian crisis' and move massive numbers of muslims into western countries as refugees than through normal immigration.
There seems to endless enthusiasm for 70+ year-olds. Some guys who are 72 or so just don’t want a full-time gig, or don’t have the health for it.
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