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We are saying that this is actually a generational war that we need to be able to fight. it s not a war of our choosing but we can choose how we fight it and right now i don t think we are are not fighting well enough. president obama doesn t seem to listen to his generals as you point out or ash carter. why is that? well, not only thatter remember, eric, had you secretary gate, secretary panetta and secretary clinton all leave their post in the cabinet and say that they have tried to tell the president to do something different in syria. the thing that i think is pretty amaze something they didn t resign on the spot, right? they waited for their memoirs to try to actually differentiate themselves. they could have done a lot of us pretty good if they had stuck to their guns then and resigned. that would have sent a message. president obama is getting a lot of criticism for that speech or that q couple days ago. let s take a listen to the sound bite and you react, please. there ....
And he had some praise for the president. we pointed it out last night, he talked about his courageous decision to go after osama bin laden. but this one line, was outlined. great to see you, joining me now, pete hegseth. you know him as a concerned veteran for america. pete, that line, he was skeptical if not outright convinced that the strategy in afghanistan, strategy men like you went and fought and pursued, would fail and yet he ordered it anyway. yeah, it is infuriating, if anybody like secretary gate says that he believed it would fail, it was a gut punch to learn he thought i am not sure it would succeed, but i m going to send you anyway. no president can be sure, it is that he believed he was ....
And he had some praise for the president. we pointed it out last night, he talked about his courageous decision to go after osama bin laden. but this one line, was outlined. great to see you, joining me now, pete hegseth. you know him as a concerned veteran for america. pete, that line, he was skeptical if not outright convinced that the strategy in afghanistan, strategy men like you went and fought and pursued, would fail and yet he ordered it anyway. yeah, it is infuriating, if anybody like secretary gate says that he believed it would fail, it was a gut punch to learn he thought i am not sure it would succeed, but i m going to send you anyway. no president can be sure, it is that he believed he was ....
Yourself. and you re a four-star general, we greatly respect your service to the nation. and you ran for president. you have an idea of what it takes to be the commander in chief. if you believed a strategy if you were convinced a strategy was meant to fail, would you send our men and women in uniform out there to execute it in. well, first of all, we don t know what president obama was really thinking. what we have is secretary gate s interpretation. true. and when someone comes to you like the secretary of defense, and you re the president of the united states, remember, the secretary of defense is the number two guy in the chain of command. he is bringing the recommendation of the united states, president says in this case okay, we re going to do it. it is on my head, i know i m the president of the united states. i m accountable, but i m looking to you to do this. and just in the interpersonal dynamics, you know that is a lot ....
Yourself. and you re a four-star general, we greatly respect your service to the nation. and you ran for president. you have an idea of what it takes to be the commander in chief. if you believed a strategy if you were convinced a strategy was meant to fail, would you send our men and women in uniform out there to execute it in. well, first of all, we don t know what president obama was really thinking. what we have is secretary gate s interpretation. true. and when someone comes to you like the secretary of defense, and you re the president of the united states, remember, the secretary of defense is the number two guy in the chain of command. he is bringing the recommendation of the united states, president says in this case okay, we re going to do it. it is on my head, i know i m the president of the united states. i m accountable, but i m looking to you to do this. and just in the interpersonal dynamics, you know that is a lot ....