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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCable news 'experts' critical of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal are on the defense industry dole
https://theintercept.com/2021/08/19/afghanistan-taliban-defense-industry-media/Many former military and public officials appearing in the news have more than a patriotic interest in a continued occupation.
JACK KEANE HAS had a busy week.
The retired four-star general has been making the cable news rounds, offering scathing criticism of the White House in wake of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. On Wednesday, he appeared on Fox News, where he told host Harris Faulkner that the administration made a terrible mistake in pulling our troops out and giving the Taliban the opportunity to take the country over.
Its going to become a more dangerous place, threatening America, he warned. And the worlds going to be a more dangerous place.
On another Fox News program earlier in the week, Keane attacked President Joe Bidens withdrawal plan as embarrassing and ill-conceived, suggesting that the administration should have delayed until sometime next year.
What neither Keane nor the host in either of these segments mentioned is that he has more than merely a patriotic interest in the continued occupation. Keane, a former board member at weapons maker General Dynamics, is chair of AM General, the company that makes Humvees. He also sits on the boards of Cyalume Technologies Inc., which manufactures military chemical lights and other technology deployed on the battlefield in Afghanistan, and the Institute for the Study of War, a think tank that publishes defense policy proposals with the aim of developing the next generation of national security leaders and is backed by CACI International Inc., General Dynamics, and other defense contractors.
The retired four-star general has been making the cable news rounds, offering scathing criticism of the White House in wake of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. On Wednesday, he appeared on Fox News, where he told host Harris Faulkner that the administration made a terrible mistake in pulling our troops out and giving the Taliban the opportunity to take the country over.
Its going to become a more dangerous place, threatening America, he warned. And the worlds going to be a more dangerous place.
On another Fox News program earlier in the week, Keane attacked President Joe Bidens withdrawal plan as embarrassing and ill-conceived, suggesting that the administration should have delayed until sometime next year.
What neither Keane nor the host in either of these segments mentioned is that he has more than merely a patriotic interest in the continued occupation. Keane, a former board member at weapons maker General Dynamics, is chair of AM General, the company that makes Humvees. He also sits on the boards of Cyalume Technologies Inc., which manufactures military chemical lights and other technology deployed on the battlefield in Afghanistan, and the Institute for the Study of War, a think tank that publishes defense policy proposals with the aim of developing the next generation of national security leaders and is backed by CACI International Inc., General Dynamics, and other defense contractors.
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Cable news 'experts' critical of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal are on the defense industry dole (Original Post)
CousinIT
Aug 2021
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dalton99a
(81,374 posts)1. Kick
malaise
(268,635 posts)2. There are also MIC interests sitting on the Boards of corpoate media houses.
That is all
Duppers
(28,117 posts)3. Big K&R!
burrowowl
(17,632 posts)4. Why am I not surprised!? K&R
NoMoreRepugs
(9,361 posts)5. It ALWAYS comes down to "follow the money."
2naSalit
(86,307 posts)6. Yeah, no shit...
Joe's wasting no time at killing their cash cow that they had set up for eternal grifting. He has plans for a lot of that money and I bet they are something that will be good for the rest of us.
All those hit dogs are going to holler a whole lot so pay attention to who they are so we can not put any of them in office anymore.