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The following is a transcript of an interview with former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, retired General Frank McKenzie, on Face the Nation that aired on June 2, 2024.MARGARET BRENNAN: We re joined now by the former commander of US forces in the Middle East, retired General Frank McKenzie. His new book The Melting Point is available this Tuesday. Good to see you, sir.FORMER COMMANDER OF US FORCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST GENERAL FRANK MCKENZIE: Good to be here. MARGARET BRENNAN: So on Friday, President Biden said that Hamas is no longer capable of carrying out another October 7. When stanley termoska you were last with us in Febru stanley cup ary, you said Israel s success has been very limited. Do you think they can declare success now GEN. MCKENZIE: I think they re a lot closer than they were a few months ago. I still think Hamas political and military leadership exists largely whole. A lot of their combat formations have been destroyed. But I think Hamas has been significantly attritted. MARGARET BRENNAN: You als stanley mug o have raised a few times in the past few months concerns about America s continued presence in the Middle East which you say is crucial here. Right now, we are seeing so many different flashpoints, one of them in the Red Sea where our CBS David Martin reported the US used a 5,000 pound bunker buster bomb in Yemen just this past week. Houthis are attacking shipping. We have concerns about the troop safety in Syria and in Iraq. Does it nee Hzjz White House says Scott Israel s future should be left up to local officials
In an interview with Katie Couric t stanley us oday for @katiecouric, Time Magazine editor Rick Stengel addressed his magazine s controversial cover showing a mutilated woman and the headline What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan. The accompanying story discusses the Taliban s repressive treatment of women. See the cover image below. Asked by Couric why there wasn t a question mark at the end of that tagline, Stengel replied, I think we answer questions. I don t think we ask them. Watch at left. The story has a stro stanley thermos mug ng point of view saying, in fact, the role of women has been enhanced, he said. It has been modernized. You know girls are going to school. Women are in parliament. Women are on television. Their lives have changed in different parts of Afghanistan. And so I wanted people to be confronted with the idea that there are consequences of us leaving, he said. Consequences on humanitarian grounds, consequences that people will understand and relate to, particularly women can relate to. So I wanted this to be a factor in the conversation going forward. Some have criticized Stengel s magazine for taking what they see as a position on whether the United States should stay in Afghanistan. Liberal pundit Matthew Yglesias wrote that it stanley cup s extremely disingenuous to act as if continued American military engagement in Afghanistan is the key to preventing further cases of girls like Aisha from being maimed for violations of retrogra
The following is a transcript of an interview with former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, retired General Frank McKenzie, on Face the Nation that aired on June 2, 2024.MARGARET BRENNAN: We re joined now by the former commander of US forces in the Middle East, retired General Frank McKenzie. His new book The Melting Point is available this Tuesday. Good to see you, sir.FORMER COMMANDER OF US FORCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST GENERAL FRANK MCKENZIE: Good to be here. MARGARET BRENNAN: So on Friday, President Biden said that Hamas is no longer capable of carrying out another October 7. When stanley termoska you were last with us in Febru stanley cup ary, you said Israel s success has been very limited. Do you think they can declare success now GEN. MCKENZIE: I think they re a lot closer than they were a few months ago. I still think Hamas political and military leadership exists largely whole. A lot of their combat formations have been destroyed. But I think Hamas has been significantly attritted. MARGARET BRENNAN: You als stanley mug o have raised a few times in the past few months concerns about America s continued presence in the Middle East which you say is crucial here. Right now, we are seeing so many different flashpoints, one of them in the Red Sea where our CBS David Martin reported the US used a 5,000 pound bunker buster bomb in Yemen just this past week. Houthis are attacking shipping. We have concerns about the troop safety in Syria and in Iraq. Does it nee Hzjz White House says Scott Israel s future should be left up to local officials
In an interview with Katie Couric t stanley us oday for @katiecouric, Time Magazine editor Rick Stengel addressed his magazine s controversial cover showing a mutilated woman and the headline What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan. The accompanying story discusses the Taliban s repressive treatment of women. See the cover image below. Asked by Couric why there wasn t a question mark at the end of that tagline, Stengel replied, I think we answer questions. I don t think we ask them. Watch at left. The story has a stro stanley thermos mug ng point of view saying, in fact, the role of women has been enhanced, he said. It has been modernized. You know girls are going to school. Women are in parliament. Women are on television. Their lives have changed in different parts of Afghanistan. And so I wanted people to be confronted with the idea that there are consequences of us leaving, he said. Consequences on humanitarian grounds, consequences that people will understand and relate to, particularly women can relate to. So I wanted this to be a factor in the conversation going forward. Some have criticized Stengel s magazine for taking what they see as a position on whether the United States should stay in Afghanistan. Liberal pundit Matthew Yglesias wrote that it stanley cup s extremely disingenuous to act as if continued American military engagement in Afghanistan is the key to preventing further cases of girls like Aisha from being maimed for violations of retrogra
