National Security Adviser Designate: ‘Islam Is a Political Ideology,’ Not Many ‘People Screaming Jesus Christ With Hatchets”, by Michael Chapman.
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Michael T. Flynn, a registered Democrat who has been offered the position of National Security Adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, believes “Islam is a political ideology” that veils itself as a religion, and is unique in that sense because he does not “see a lot of people screaming Jesus Christ with hatchets” or guns “shooting up clubs” or “literally axing families on a train.”
At last, someone with government power who sees the obvious. Check out his tweet, which the PC crew turned into a controversy, from early this year:
Gen. Flynn has said the U.S. needs to appreciate the scope of the threat from radical Islamists who want to destroy the country. “We’re in a world war,” he wrote in a book published this summer. “But very few Americans recognize it, and fewer still have any idea how to win it.”
During his 33-year career in the U.S. armed forces, Gen. Flynn made his name as a widely respected Army officer known for his candor and unorthodox sensibilities about intelligence and military operations. The 57-year-old retired general served in top roles across the military, including as director of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and intelligence adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal in Iraq and Afghanistan.
By the end of his military tenure, he had become a maverick within the ranks of the normally deferential and apolitical corps of “general officers,” the military’s top-ranking officials.
hat-tip Stephen Neil
