Fox News Analyst Ret. General Jack Keane Calls Syria Strike ‘Weak’: ‘Should Have Been Decisive’

Retired Army Gen. Jack Keane praised the Trump administration for taking action in Syria — but criticized Friday night’s airstrike on Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons program as “weak.”

“Let’s credit the administration for, one, taking action,” Keane, a Fox News analyst and big fan of missiles, said on Saturday. “Second, credit the administration for bringing our allies into the strike and representing the entire international community.”

He continued:

“I think that the response is very weak in my judgment particularly in view of the fact that this is a follow-up attack by Assad to a strike that we had already delivered a year ago. It should have been decisive, it should have been consequential, as a result of the strike we still leave them with multiple chemical storage sites and production capabilities.”

Keane went on to explain Assad’s use of chemical attack in Douma, a suburb near Damascus, as a means of vanquishing the remaining rebels holding on to the town.

“His calculation was: I’m going to use the weapon, I know the United States is going to respond. I suspect it’s going to be another modest response and I’m willing to pay that price.”

Keane asked “why didn’t we take out all of his military capability that he has,” before arguing it’s because “we’re intimidated by a second rate power, who’s trying to pretend to be a super power, called the Russians.”

Watch above, via Fox News.

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