Another Controversial Trump Pick Gets Mixed Reviews From The National Security World

Trump and Flynn agree that the US should cooperate more with Russian Federation to battle Islamic State militants and other extremist groups.

A number of controversial tweets posed by Flynn were deleted after he was contacted for comment by CNN.

Flynn’s selection amounts to Trump’s first signal to allies and adversaries about the course he could take in office.

Colin Powell, who had served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the pinnacle of his Army career, became secretary of state during President George W. Bush’s first term. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article.

She says now Republican control of the White House and Congress offers the party a rare opportunity, and that it’s important that Trump and Republican leaders in Congress take action quickly and “we don’t stop”. On the subject of Islam, Bannon has been particularly outspoken, both directly and through Breitbart. “And we have to try to figure out: How do we combine the United States’ national security strategy along with Russia’s national security strategy, despite all the challenges that we face?” Flynn wrote, “we’re in a world war against a messianic mass movement of evil people, majority inspired by a totalitarian ideology: Radical Islam”.

He also parroted the right-wing myth that “creeping Sharia” is conquering America, and applauded an anti-Muslim Texas politician.

Flynn has come under similar fire as Trump for apparent coziness with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Sessions must secure confirmation by the U.S. Senate to lead the Justice Department as attorney general, but he would only need to win majority support in the chamber, which is controlled by Republicans.

“General Flynn is one of the country’s foremost experts on military and intelligence matters and he will be an invaluable asset to me and my administration”. After retiring in 2014, Flynn quickly turned on the Obama administration and accused it of being soft on terrorism.In recent public comments, Flynn has emphasized his view that Islamic State extremists pose an existential threat on a global scale and demanded a far more aggressive US military campaign against the group.

Earlier this year he tweeted a video that claims Islamophobia is an oxymoron with the accompanying message: “Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL: please forward this to others: the truth fears no questions.”.

Whilst campaigning, Donald Trump spoke out against NATO, calling the organisation expensive and obsolete.

“Russia has its own national security strategy, and we have to respect that”, Flynn said in one of his regular appearances on Kremlin mouthpiece Russia Today.

In 2013, Sessions wrote a letter to the National Endowment for the Humanities questioning its grant process.

WELNA: Many Muslim leaders in the US had, in fact, already condemned those attacks.

Given the long-standing concerns about Trump’s temperament, many hoped that the president-elect would surround himself with more sobering forces to act as a counter-balance in the White House.

In 2015, Pompeo went on a radio show with noted Islamophobe Frank Gaffney and appeared to agree with his suggestion that Obama has a “kind of an affinity” for the cause of violent Islamic extremists.

The Wildfire is an opinion platform and any opinions or information put forth by contributors are exclusive to them and do not represent the views of IJR. “Radical Islam” is a designation that President Obama has refused to recognize.

The report said: “Having focused the overwhelming majority of its collection efforts and analytical brainpower on insurgent groups, the vast intelligence apparatus is unable to answer fundamental questions about the environment in which USA and allied forces operate”.