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Military must deal with any extremism in the ranks: Keane

2021-02-05 | 🔗
The Pentagon issues a military 'stand down' to address extremism; Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane explains why the order is 'right on the mark.'
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Act now, General Lloyd, Austin with General Lloyd Austin with the military wide stands down. What does that mean? He is aiming toward extremism after it came to light as they participate. They are not acting the way they should retired General Jack Keane. What does this mean? What it is is we have done this with a piece of equipment and forces the entire chain of command, to get very introspective see what its patterns of behavior are and
what the issues are and something that is right on the mark. As far as I am concerned, the DOD has some evidence. We have DOD members, largely military participate in the assault on the capital and an indication. There is also military members of DOD who belong to militia organizations. The antithesis at the United States of at the United States of America, its not a large group of people in the organization and weve, got to deal with it. I applaud the secretary for getting after this thing. I did this in Fort Bragg took over a month after two black citizens were killed on the streets streets of Fayetteville by two streets of Fayetteville by two skinheads in the eighty. Second, we conducted an investigation and found we missed the signs and symbols ourselves in the chain of command and werent aggressive enough to go after
these people in their speech and behavior was against the good order and discipline of the military, the military. When you join the military, you dont have the same free speech. You do as a civilian. You cannot talk against the chain of command. You cannot talk against the President of the United States. You cannot talk against America and you cannot express views that are against the good order of the military organization that gives the military the right to go after this. I think we do go after it and have to pay attention to things like this as they grow in our military organization. It is not a large problem, but is a critical one and needs to be dealt with. Joe Biden outlined his foreign policy objectives where foreign policy objectives where he says I back you, I support you, and one thing you say stood out, was a pattern and look at what we decide to do no longer support Saudi Arabia,
but it was a big deal. Do you see a pattern here? They are supporting the Trump administrations to stand on China against issues in Hong Kong. The Chinese are imposing against what they are doing, all good news we will see if they will have, we will see if they will have the ability to confront China and match actions with rhetoric when it comes to the Middle EAST. I have some concern because im seeing a pattern that is similar to the Obama Biden Pattern, pulling away from our friends in the region, Arabs and Israelis, and moving towards IRAN Heres. What I see stopping military aid to Saudi Arabia and the UAE the Trump Administration are committed to administration, are committed to to strengthen their militaries encountering the Iranians adequate deterrence for their blind malign behavior. The second thing that is
happening is we are ending our support for the war in Yemen. We werent directly involved in combat but helping the Saudis with their airpower, but we are with their airpower, but we are not using our airpower. What happened here is the iranian backed Houthis took over Yemen. Country friendly to the United States ran us out of our embassy. It was an emergency exit and they ran us out of our special operations base in that country conducting operations against Al Qaeda. So there is no doubt who was involved what the main issue. This is: Irans power grab in the region. The way of supporting it shows me. We are getting ready for negotiations with the Iranians, but pulling away from our
allies in the region dealing with two major issues. It is a with two major issues. It is a serious issue in the region, Steve when you pull out of Yemen, you are giving it to IRAN. When you stop supporting Saudi Arabia, you are giving it to IRAN. You dont, like Saudi Arabias Military organization, youre, giving the country away. They decided to pause weapons sales theres a meeting in the situation room about the IRAN uranium Program and the missile.
Transcript generated on 2021-03-10.