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Flynn flam: Neocon Ex-General to Be Trump's National Security Advisor

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Trump's National Security Advisor ex General Flynn: bloodthirsty neo-con
Trump's National Security Advisor ex General Flynn: bloodthirsty neo-con
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President-elect Donald J. Trump has offered the post of nationalsecurity adviser to retired three-star Gen. Michael T. Flynn, aneoconservative war hawk with anti-muslim views.

The National Security Advisor is a president's main foreign policy person and plays a key role as coordinator of implementing thepresident's foreign policy decisions. Bearing that in mind, Gen. Flynn, seen as one of Trump's closest and most trusted advisors, takes the view that the U.S. is in a global war, not just against Islamic jihadists but against Islam itself. It's not really a religion, Flynn argues, but a dangerous political ideology. Flynn has called Islam a "cancer" and has said, "Fear of Muslims is rational." In April 2015 he told Fox News, "I've been at war with Islam, or a component of Islam, for the last decade."

According to Dana Priest in the New Yorker, "The greatest accomplishment of Flynn's military career was revolutionizing the way that the clandestine arm of the military, the Joint Special Operations Command, undertook the killing and capture of suspected terrorists and insurgents in war zones."

The position of National Security Advisor has been held in the past by among others Henry Kissinger, who was responsible for numerous war crimes and the death of millions under President Richard Nixon. Under President Ronald Reagan, National Security Advisor John Poindexter was convicted of lying to Congress about the Iran-Contra affair along with another Reagan National Security Advisor, Robert McFarlane, who later pleaded guilty to withholding information from Congress regarding arm sales to Iran and was spared being scarred by that conviction record only thanks to a pardon by President George H.W. Bush in 1992.

Gen. Flynn as Trump's National Security Advisor will be a "critical gatekeeper for a president with little experience in military or foreign policy issues" according to the New York Times. Flynn, a registered Democrat, served as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Barack Obama but was reportedly fired for his ultra-right pro-war views aimed at Iran at a time when the Obama administration was negotiating a deal with that nation on shutting down its uranium enrichment program. Flynn is a bitter enemy of Iran and has advocated toppling Iran's government as the only way to prevent that nation from becoming a major power in the Middle East.

Flynn argues that the U.S. shouldn't be restrained by human rights,international law, rules of engagement, or other forms of "political correctness" but should ruthlessly fight this "existential enemy"...

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