General Jack Keane doesn’t like Obama plan

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General Keane was wasted

I listened to General Keane this morning on Fox News. He really doesn’t like the Obama drawdown in Afghanistan. Why? The reduction in force will permit resurgence by the Taliban against a weak government. That means, all of the fighting, soldiers killed, and investment to date will have been for nothing.

Well, yes, that is true. You see, general that is what we tried to tell you from the outset.

We never had the capacity to build Afghanistan into a viable nation. We were in Afghanistan to chase the al Qaeda and to kill Osama bin Laden. We got side tracked in Iraq, and bin Laden moved to Pakistan with some force and alignment with Taliban strung out in Afghanistan. We got strung out.

Our foreign policy and military policy were misaligned as well as our Congress and Presidential leadership. When it is all misaligned we miss the target.

Obama and effective military and intelligence forces brought the focus back to bin Laden and killed him. Mission accomplished.

As for all of the military misuse and distraction, that was a costly mistake which must be ended.

There will never be high return on military cost in Afghanistan. That is the lesson.

Therefore, sorry General, you are an American hero in my book, but they wasted you just like they did in Vietnam.

Who did that? Congress is the number 1 culprit.

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