Retired
General Warns What Happens When You Disagree with Obama, "there's a lot of
frustration within the ranks ..." by Charles
Campbell, 9/9/16
Retired four-star general and Fox
News military analyst Gen. Jack Keane says disagreeing with President Barack
Obama can be dangerous for the careers of military leaders.
In a radio interview on Kilmeade & Friends, Keane said
there is a pattern of generals who disagree with the president leaving the
military earlier than expected.
“It’s also a fact that a number of
our general officers, not all of them but a number of them, were asked to leave
before what would normally be accepted as the routine tenure for that
particular position, and Gen. (James) Mattis is a case in point who had
very strong views on Iran,” Keane said.
Keane has been a longtime critic of
Obama’s foreign policy prescriptions, even going so far as to warn Congress
that we are losing the war with Islamic State, and adding, “Moreover, I can say
with certainty that this [Obama’s] strategy will not defeat ISIS.”
“Gen. (Micheal) Flynn, who you
know very well and had on your show, was an outspoken proponent for
understanding radical Islam, how dangerous this particular threat was and was
trying to communicate that, he was not able to serve out his full tenure,”
Keane told host Brian Kilmeade. “So yes, that’s another fact that we can
substantiate, that there were generals who did leave earlier than what their
tenure would be and the characteristic they all shared together is they did
disagree with the administration on various points.”
Keane explained that when Obama
declared his intention to defeat ISIS, he severely restricted the military’s
options right from the beginning.
According to Keane, a normal
military campaign procedure usually includes officials putting together
different plans, each one detailing the various levels of risk. The president
then makes a judgment call based on the plan, something that never happened
under the current administration.
Obama wanted no boots on the ground
and no civilian casualties for the air campaign. These demands hampered efforts
to swiftly defeat ISIS.
When discussing the Iranian nuclear
deal, Keane pointed out that Iran always cheats and the only reason we know
that is not because of inspection, but because of informants. Iran is
attempting to show it is the dominant power in the Middle East and the U.S. is
no longer a strong ally.
Republican presidential nominee
Donald Trump echoed the concerns
of Keane on Wednesday during the nationally televised “Commander in
Chief” forum.
“I think under the leadership of
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble,”
Trump told host Matt Lauer.
“They have been reduced to a point
where it’s embarrassing to our country. … And I can just see the great, as an
example, Gen. George Patton spinning in his grave as ISIS, we can’t beat.”
Retired Lt. Gen. Flynn echoed Trump’s
sentiments, telling Fox and Friends
on Thursday the Republican nominee was “absolutely right.”
“I mean, there’s a lot of
frustration within the ranks and there’s a lot of frustration I know in the
senior leadership about what we’re not able to do,” Flynn added.
Flynn acknowledged that he thought
Trump respected the military and its leaders, and had refreshing solutions that
are completely opposite to those coming from the Obama administration.
“Donald Trump has enormous respect
for our military, for our military leaders and he also said last night for our
intelligence professionals,” Flynn said. “I know I have been in a couple
of these intelligence briefings that have been in stark contrast to the policy
decisions we are seeing coming out of this White House. So this is a very
dangerous time.”
Comments
Over the
past 8 years there have been many articles claiming that US Military General
Officers were asked to pledge their loyalty to Obama, similar to Hitler’s
requirement of his Generals. Many of our
Generals refused and restated their oath to the US Constitution and they were
fired.
There
were other articles citing where Obama wanted to use the military for trivial
missions and restrict their rules of engagement in battle. In addition, Obama
imposed his version of “social engineering” and chased out the Christian Chaplains.
It seemed
like Obama wanted to pack the US Military with gays to frighten the terrorists
and that might have worked if he had the chance to replace the entire military
with cross-dressers.
I believe
Trump is right to view the current Pentagon Generals skeptically. Democrats are
crazy if they continue to support “Benghazi Betty” as our next Commander in
Chief.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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