General Keane Assesses why Only 15 Percent of Active-Duty Military Approve of Obama

‘They know that the United States has disengaged from the world and that as a result of it, the opinion of the United States is probably at its lowest it’s been’

"There is a loss of confidence in that policy as it pertains to Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, the rise of ISIS, and certainly the power grab that Putin’s been exercising in Crimea and Ukraine. But, it cuts really deep with Iraq and Afghanistan because our troops have been obviously personally involved there. Their families have sacrificed. They have lost teammates, and many of them, tens of thousands, have been wounded themselves as a result of conflict for the last 13 years.

The issues are obvious. One is that given that sacrifice they resent the fact that we just walked away from Iraq, did not leave our troops, disengaged with the political growth of Iraq, and they know it gave the rise to ISIS. And it begins to squander the sacrifices they made. Also in Afghanistan, the fact is, in Afghanistan they know that President Obama did not give Generals Petraeus and McChrystal all the troops that they wanted -- 25 percent less -- and then pulled them out after they were having some success after a year.

And they know now that the president has announced he will pull owl the troops out of Afghanistan in 2016, similar to what he did in Iraq. Many of the troops that have been there believe that is going to doom Afghanistan to the same fate. So those are very specific issues for them as it pertains to foreign policy."

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