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I have lots of concerns at working with Russia going against ISIS until we have agreements in terms of what Russia's behavior is going to be.

From Jack Keane

Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.

From Jack Keane

Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.

From Jack Keane

I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.

From Jack Keane

One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'

From Jack Keane

ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.

From Jack Keane

To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.

From Jack Keane

Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.

From Jack Keane

By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.

From Jack Keane

Aircraft are always going to be something that terrorists are interested in because you bring down an airliner, you have drawn the world's attention.

From Jack Keane

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