Uncommon Knowledge: Jack Keane

 

General Jack Keane briefly describes the history and rise of ISIS and its aim in the Middle East. Keane then discusses the concrete steps America should take to defeat ISIS, including partnerships with Sunni tribes and a more comprehensive air war.

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  1. Dave Sussman Member
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    Fascinating and frustrating. History won’t be kind to this administration.

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  2. James Gawron Inactive
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    Peter,

    I would say General Keane gets it. He gets it exactly. His ideas make perfect sense to me. Hopefully, a President who will listen long enough to understand and not try to play politics with a military operation will be in office. That President will obliterate ISIS.

    Thanks for your interview Peter.

    Regards,

    Jim

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  3. James Gawron Inactive
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    Peter,

    Trump: ‘We Are Seriously Thinking About’ Picking John Bolton as Secretary of State

    Bolton could pull this off. He has the experience and he has the aggressiveness.

    Regards,

    Jim

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  4. Front Seat Cat Member
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    It has taken a long time for the current in charge to grasp the evil of ISIS – I hope that the next administration puts all hands on deck – the military and undercover, as well as our allies know what to do – they have been held back – no leadership.

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  5. La Tapada Member
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    I liked this insight (that the world is slow to realize that strange ideologies are serious):

    Peter: They claim they want to reestablish the ancient caliphate, authority over 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide. And you believe them? They really do mean that?
    Keane: Yeah, I think one of the things that we’ve got to come to grips with… we’ve been discounting radical Islam [since] the first World Trade Center bombing in New York City in 1993… We’ve dealt with ideologies in the past and we have a tendency to discount them. When Nazism was rising in the 30s, the world leaders at the time, weary of WWI, and they heard this pollution, this ideological pollution coming, about white supremacism and Nazism, and they discounted it. [Thinking,] “Oh they can’t be serious.”
    Peter: “Hitler’s just a crank. He can’t mean that.”
    Keane: “He can’t really mean it.” And guess what happened. [Unintelligible], Czechoslovakia, Poland, Belgium, and that got all of our attention, certainly France for sure. And then the world had to deal with that reality.
    Communism, the same thing. They were going to establish a model state called Russia and the world would come to them and this ideology would spread around the world. We have a tendency to discount these lofty interpretations of ideals that men or other leaders represent and the reality is, yes, they are dead serious.

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  6. La Tapada Member
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    Does anyone know why these interviews are posted so long after they are recorded? The interview titled European Disunion was recorded in January 2016 and posted in June 2016. I came across it after the Brexit vote and was a little disappointed that I couldn’t hear these men’s opinion on the results of the vote. (This current interview was recorded back in March.)

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  7. Eugene Kriegsmann Member
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    Another superb interview. Keane is wonderful. The thoughts that come to mind after listening cannot be expressed fully without breaching the CofC, so I will leave them to the imaginations of others. I doubt that many on this site would have difficulty discerning them.

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  8. Blue Yeti Admin
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    La Tapada:Does anyone know why these interviews are posted so long after they are recorded? The interview titled European Disunion was recorded in January 2016 and posted in June 2016. I came across it after the Brexit vote and was a little disappointed that I couldn’t hear these men’s opinion on the results of the vote. (This current interview was recorded back in March.)

    It really depends on the schedule and what other shows were shot at the same time (we tend to shoot them in bunches and then release them over time).

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  9. Wiley Inactive
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    General Keane represents the best in American leadeship.

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  10. La Tapada Member
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    Blue Yeti:

    La Tapada:Does anyone know why these interviews are posted so long after they are recorded? The interview titled European Disunion was recorded in January 2016 and posted in June 2016. I came across it after the Brexit vote and was a little disappointed that I couldn’t hear these men’s opinion on the results of the vote. (This current interview was recorded back in March.)

    It really depends on the schedule and what other shows were shot at the same time (we tend to shoot them in bunches and then release them over time).

    Thanks for the answer, @blueyeti. Things are happening so fast these days, it’s hard to keep up.

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  11. Duane Oyen Member
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    For those who, like me, don’t sit in front of the computer and watch stuff, here is the audio link:

    http://feeds.podtrac.com/xePMdRSjSIDF

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