Retired general Jack Keane criticized President Obama for not acting quickly enough on military intervention in Syria and warned that this delay has only aided President Bashar Assad.
“I never would have given Assad’s forces this kind of opportunity to hide and protect his resources,” Keane said on Fox News this afternoon. He also stated that he would have launched a strike against Syria ten days ago rather than waiting.
The former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army argued that the “limited” scope and duration of the strikes on Syria would have been “low-risk” enough that the president could have intervened and then explained the reasons to the public afterwards. “Certainly it is an act of war, but we’re not going to war if we can sort of split the difference,” he said. He added that President Obama was “not committing the country to a campaign of war” and compared the situation to the president’s handling of Libya.
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