Gen. Keane on Afghanistan Hearing: Biden Owns this Problem and Its Consequences

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KEANE: “Well, first of all, the roses got to be pinned here and I think it’s unequivocally clear, the decision to execute and unconditional withdrawal with the date certain, the president deciding on over the objection of his military chain of command, the advice that his director of the CIA provided to him that it’s likely that ISIS and Al Qaeda would grow and rise again if we pulled out completely, and the NATO nations who were there with us who provided some 7,000 troops themselves, all to a person representing those nations, wanted to stay. Not to please the United States but because of their own national interest. The president made this decision over all of those objections. He owns everything that took place as a result of that decision. Certainly complementing that decision was the State Department’s failure not to recognize the accelerated nature of what was taking place and General McKenzie is flagging everybody that this is actually happening faster than we thought it would happen.”