General Petraeus has conceded that President Obama's plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan is more aggressive than the timeline that was recommended. General Jack Keane says that it is outright reckless and irresponsible.
In an interview with Bill Hemmer, he says, "It's irresponsible in the sense that we've made significant gains in the last 18 months and this absolutely undermines those gains that we've made against the Taliban. And, they are hard fought gains, some of the fiercest fighting we've ever been involved in."
He goes onto say, "In terms of it being reckless, we're pulling out 33,000 troops, by that we're doing, we're asking, the troops that will remain to do more with less. That means more U.S. soldiers killed, more U.S. soldiers wounded as a result of having to do more with significantly less than what we had planned for."
