Jack Keane: This will NOT force the Iranian regime to collapse

♪. ♪. MARK: WELCOME BACK AMERICA FOR. WE HAVE A DEAR FRIEND A GREAT. PATRIOT GENERAL JACK KEANE WITH. US RETIRED FOUR-STAR ARMY. GENERAL. JACK KEANE, I WOULD LIKE TO FOR. YOU TO GIVE US A MINUTE OR TWO. IN YOUR MILITARY BACKGROUND GET. ASKED ABOUT THIS ALL THE TIME. AND I DO NOT LIKE TO TALK ABOUT. YOUR SHY ABOUT IT BUT AT MY. PRODDING AND LIKE YOU TO TELL US. LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT >> MY DAD. WAS A WORLD WAR II MARINE I GREW. UP IN NEW YORK CITY, SITTING.

HOUSING PROJECTS AND I AT 16. YEARS OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION. CULMINATING AT JESUIT SCHOOL. ROTC THAT WAR WAS ON IN VIETNAM. WE ALL KNEW WE WERE GOING ONE. WAY OR THE OTHER SO WE DECIDED, MY FRIENDS AND I, NO ONE HAD. EVER SPENT THEIR CAREER AND. MILITARY MUCH LESS AN OFFICER WE. JUMPED INTO THE ROTC PROGRAM. THEY QUIT AFTER ABOUT SIX MONTHS. OF IT I SEEM TO HAVE AN APTITUDE.

FOR IT. I KIND OF ENJOYED ATTIC, EXCELLED A LITTLE BIT AND FELT. POSSIBLY I COULD MAKE A CAREER. OF DOING THIS. MY FIRST UNIT WAS 82nd. AIRBORNE DIVISION IRAN INTO SOME. OF THE FINEST PEOPLE HAVE EVER. MET IN MY LIFE NONCOMMISSIONED. OFFICERS. THEY WERE INFANTRY PARATROOPERS. LIKE ME. THEY HELP TO CHANGE MY LIFE AND. HELP PUSH MY COMMITMENT OF THE. 101st AIRBORNE.

I WAS AMONG HEROES. I KNEW I COULD HANDLE COMBAT AND. DEAL WITH THE REALITY OF WHAT WE. ARE FACING. YOU NEVER KNOW UNTIL YOU DO IT. IF YOU HAVE AN APTITUDE FOR. SOMETHING LIKE THAT I FEEL LIKE. IT WAS A CALLING, A VOCATION. IF I CAN DO THIS I CAN HELP. PROTECT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE I'VE. DEDICATED MYSELF TO DOING AS. WELL AS I COULD THE ARMY SAW. SOME WORTH AND ALL OF THAT THE.

CAMARADERIE AND FRIENDSHIP AND. INTENSE ASSOCIATIONS I HAVE HAD. THROUGH THE YEARS. I COMMANDED A BATTALION AND. BRIGADE AS A KERNEL DIVISION. 101st THE OUTFIT I WAS IN. COMBAT WITH, WENT BACK TO FORT. BRAGG IN COMMAND THE LARGEST. FIGHTING ORGANIZATION IN THE. ARMY 18th AIRBORNE FOURTH. 90000 TROOPS TO SPREAD OUT ALL. OVER THE UNITED STATES. I BECAME A FOUR-STAR AND WORKED. IN THE PENTAGON.

THE BEST ABOUT MEMORIES THAT. MILITARY QUITE COMPASSIONATE. I'VE ALSO MOVED ON AND I'M QUITE. SURPRISED I'M SO, SO HEAVILY. ENGAGED IN FOREIGN POLICY AND. NATIONAL SECURITY. IN SOME OF MY BACKGROUND IS HELP. ME DO ALL OF THAT. >> YOUR VOICE IS CRUCIAL AND. YOUR ADVICE HAS BEEN SPOT ON ALL.

DURING THE COURSE OF THIS WAR IN. IRAN A WAR AND AROUND WERE THE. LAST SIX MONTHS OR IS NOT BEEN. SUSTAINED MILITARY ACTION. I WANT TO ASK ABOUT THAT. WE HAVE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS. WE HAVE A BLOCKADE OF THIS. REGIME. WHAT IS THE HOPE? I LOOK AT NORTH KOREA, I LOOK AT. KOREA ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AND SO. FORTH DID NOT STOP NORTH KOREA. FROM GETTING NUKES. THE PRESIDENT WILL BE PRESIDENT. TWO MORE YEARS.

IT HAS NOT STOPPED TO CUBA FROM. BEING THE KIND OF ENEMY ISLAND. IT HAS BEEN SINCE 1959. WHY SHOULD WE THINK ECONOMIC. SANCTIONS ALONE AND BLOCKADES. ALONE EVEN IF THEY ARE CONTINUED. WILL BRING DOWN THIS REGIME IN. PARTICULAR? >> I DON'T THINK IT WELL. A COUPLE OF POINTS HERE SIX AND. A HALF MONTHS WE STOPPED A WAR. ON APRIL THE SEVENTH BECAUSE THE. IRANIANS WERE INVITING US TO THE. QATARI'S AND THE PAKISTANIS WHO. I THINK DUPED US TO BE FRANK.

THEY WERE SINCERE ABOUT MAKING A. DEAL FOR THERE'S NO DEAL TO BE. HAD THAT WAS OVER THE ERIC. FREEDMAN IF YOU RECALL WE EVEN. SIGNED ONE IN JUNE AND THEY. BROKE IT HERE WE ARE SIX AND A. HALF MONTHS USING DIPLOMACY TO. TRY TO ACHIEVE OUR ENDS AND. STILL TALKING ABOUT IT. ALL OF MY SOURCES U.S. SOURCES, ISRAELI SOURCES, ARAB SOURCES. ALL SAY THE SAME THING WHO ARE. TUNED INTO WHAT THE IRANIANS ARE. THINKING. THERE IS NO DEAL TO BE HAD,

NONE. EVEN IF THE IRANIANS DIDN'T MAKE. A DEAL THAT MET OUR OBJECTIVES. UNITE KNOWS MOST AMERICANS OF. THAT WILL NEVER KEEP IT. I THINK WE SHOULD PART COMPANY. WITH THAT AND RECOGNIZE REALITY. WHAT YOU JUST BROUGHT AND PUT ON. THE TABLE THE BLOCKADE HAS. EXCEEDED ALL EXPECTATIONS AND. SHUT DOWN ONE OF THE MAJOR TREND. OF THE MAJOR TRADE ROUTES THAT. IRAN DEPENDS ON SO MUCH. THERE ARE EIGHT OTHER TRADE.

ROUTES. THE SANCTIONS BEING IMPOSED TO. RESTRICT THE TRADING ACROSS THE. SEVEN COUNTRIES THAT BORDER ARE. WRONG AS WELL AS THE CASPIAN. SEA. THE FACT IS THAT IS STILL GOING. ON. RUSSIA IS PUSHING SUPPLIES INTO. OUR ROUND TO THE CASPIAN SEA. CHINA'S PUSHING SUPPLIES THROUGH. PAKISTAN AND THROUGH ROUTES. GOING INTO IRAN. OTHER COUNTRIES ARE TREADING. TRADING WITHTHEM ON THE BORDERS. THEY ARE SAYING THEY ARE NOT. DOING IT THEY ARE ABIDING BY THE.

SANCTIONS, OR WHY THEY DO NOT. KNOW WHAT THE OUTCOME IS GOING. TO BE IF THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH. IRAN LATER ON THEY DO NOT WANT. TO BE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THIS. THING. SO THE REALITY OF THE PATH THEY. ARE ON WILL NOT FORCE A COLLAPSE. OF THE REGIME FORCE A COLLAPSE. OF THE ECONOMY YES. IT WILL NOT FORCE THE COLLAPSE. OF THE RECEIPT THEY WILL SURVIVE. BASED ON WHAT I JUST TOLD YOU. AND THAT IS THE REALITY OF IT. BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO WORK HE.