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.'
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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.