jenna: let s bring in general jack keane former vice chief of staff for the army and a fox news military analyst. general keane, your reaction to general dempsey. i m a little stunned by it. i don t welcome the opportunity to have to disagree with the chairman of the joint chiefs on public it s, but he s just flat wrong here. symbolically ramadi matters. it s the capital of the largest province in iraq. it s the major sunni province in iraq, and we cannot reclaim iraq or have a stable iraq politically without sunni participation. to suggest that we can lose their capital makes no sense. it s also where the sunni awakening, which began to defeat the al-qaeda in conjunction with the bush surge of forces, it is very symbolic for that reason. strategically look at that map you had up there, can you bring that thing back up again? jenna: absolutely. we ll do that right now. when you see that map and ramadi s proximity to baghdad,
soldier s dream. captain travis patriquin, he was a u.s. army officer and a former green beret. he was key part of this, the anbar awakening. he also lost his life in iraq. but in this book this is what a young sheikh says to him. he says as goes ramadi, so goes the province, then so goes iraq. what do you think about that perspective general keane? and what should we consider about that today? well, that, that perspective is 100% correct. we would never have been able to defeat the al-qaeda without the bush surge forces and without the people in ramadi where the anbar awakening began. and for our viewers, the anbar awakening is a name that s applied to sunnis fighting back against al-qaeda who were at one time fighting with them. and they did it at great peril to their families and their friends who were killed as a result of them taking on the
al-qaeda. so as a result of that the al-qaeda eventually was defeated in iraq. but it could never have been defeated without what took place in ramadi in anbar province and the bush surge forces. jenna: i m going to switch topics, but there is a connection here. the reason why it matters that sunnis rose up is because al-qaeda subscribes to the sunni part of islam, if you will. and we re seeing al-qaeda active again in yemen and this is something we talked about a few weeks ago, general keane. you were talking about why we have to be so careful about what s happening in yemen and what would happen if the iranian-backed rebels got control of some key ports. now we know that al-qaeda has seized a major airport, an oil terminal, a military base on the cost. and that s on the coast. and that s raising alarm bells all over the place. what do you think of this development, what does it mean in yemen as we watch the chaos there?
well, at the crux of the problem is we if we were designing this campaign a military general was designing the campaign, we would have a counteroffensive going north to mosul and going all the way out to anbar province at the same time. main effort mosul secondary effort, anbar province. we don t have those kind of forces and we haven t made the u.s. commitment on the ground to help the iraqi forces as necessary. so we re doing this sequentially. mosul is the second largest city in iraq. it certainly matters. the beiji oil fields that the general mentioned certainly do matter, but to emphasize that and be dismissive of ramadi and anbar province and its symbolic and strategic significance just not right. jenna: we ve heard a lot from general dempsey throughout our air today on fox news and what he had to say about ramadi. i want to add in a little bit about the perspective from those who have fought there and those who are still living there now. this is from a book called a
republicans. john boehner spoke to maria bartiromo about that dynamic. we re going to need democrats to pass trade promotion authority. now, again, i think we ll get there because it s hard for me to imagine that democrats here in the house or senate are going to walk away from their president. reporter: now, one analyst we spoke with earlier this morning said it s tough to actually project going forward how this trade agreement would impact the work force, but their best guess was this would lead to somewhere around $200 billion in income gains and $400 billion in exports with the majority of that going to the united states and japan. jenna? jenna: a story to watch blake thank you very much. you can catch more of blake s reporting on to our sister network. if you re not sure where to find fox business network in your area, log on to foxbusiness.com/channelfinder. eric: and, jenna another major iraq city may soon fall to isis. it s the capital of iraq s biggest province, ramadi. it