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Jack Keane Quotes

It’s not that I can’t be fooled, but I’m not fooled often.

– Jack Keane

The success of ISIS is largely tied to the safe haven it has in Syria.

– Jack Keane

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.

– Jack Keane

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

Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they’re trying to take it apart right before our eyes.

– Jack Keane

While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.

– Jack Keane

In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.

– Jack Keane

Most people who aspire to be president don’t have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.

– Jack Keane

I read people; that’s one of my strengths. It’s not that I can’t be fooled, but I’m not fooled often.

– Jack Keane

I’m not in a position to go back into public service.

– Jack Keane

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.

– Jack Keane

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.

– Jack Keane

One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is ‘Do not overreact to your predecessors’ policies.’

– Jack Keane

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.

– Jack Keane

Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.

– Jack Keane

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

Fighting forces, particularly ground forces, have to operate on the basis of unit cohesion.

– Jack Keane

I have lots of concerns at working with Russia going against ISIS until we have agreements in terms of what Russia’s behavior is going to be.

– Jack Keane

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

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.

– Jack Keane

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.

– Jack Keane

Qatar has funded and helped arm ISIS. They also, as we all know, fund Hamas. That’s got to stop. And we’ve got to use our pressure against that country to knock that stuff off.

– Jack Keane

Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don’t seem capable of stopping it.

– Jack Keane

The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.

– Jack Keane

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.

– Jack Keane

United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.

– Jack Keane

If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.

– Jack Keane

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.

– Jack Keane

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.

– Jack Keane

Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations – including counterterrorism operations – in Iraq.

– Jack Keane

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