(1/1) Syria withdrawal a strategic mistake.
Bush won the war in Iraq w/ the Surge. Obama lost the peace by premature withdrawal. The result was ISIS. POTUS destroyed ISIS safe haven in Syria & will lose the peace by withdrawing.

— Jack Keane (@gen_jackkeane) December 19, 2018

(2/2) ISIS will re-emerge, Iran a greater threat, will own all of Syria, Israel more in danger, AQ a growing menace. Responding to future threats as they arise actually prolongs our involvement in Syria.

— Jack Keane (@gen_jackkeane) December 19, 2018

(3/3) Stay the course with a modest troop investment stabilize eastern Syria with a major reconstruction effort and have a seat at table for political solution.

— Jack Keane (@gen_jackkeane) December 19, 2018

John F. "Jack" Keane, a 37-year U.S. army veteran, former four-star general, and former vice chief of staff of the Army, is a vocal advocate of hawkish U.S. foreign policies. He is often credited as an architect of the 2007 U.S. "troop surge" in Iraq.

Well connected among both defense contractors and the neoconservative advocacy community, Keane is currently the board chairman at the Institute for the Study of War --a neoconservative military policy institute directed by Kimberly Kagan and formerly chaired by Liz Cheney--and is a frequent guest on Fox News.

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