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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.
— Jack Keane
Tags: said, end, city, mind

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Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
— Jack Keane
Tags: influence, path, world, power
The Pentagon is a series of wedges. So you have - the outer wedge has windows on the outside, and then inside of that, it has windows with an alleyway; then there's another wedge with windows outside, windows inside. And we call them the E Ring, the D Ring, the C Ring.
— Jack Keane
Tags: outside, inside, ring, you
Historically, aggression unanswered has led to more aggression.
— Jack Keane
Tags: historically, led, aggression, more
Here's the problem the Free Syrian Army has. They really want to topple the regime in Damascus, and this is where most of the fight takes place, between Aleppo and Damascus for the Free Syrian Army.
— Jack Keane
Tags: place, free, army, fight
I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.
— Jack Keane
Tags: down, late, remember, political
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