Flynn a frequent critic of Muslim militancy, culture

President-elect Donald Trump wants his national security adviser to be a retired intelligence officer who has called Islam “a cancer” and flew to Moscow a year ago to dine with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a black-tie gala.

The alliance between the United States and South Korea is important for both sides and relations should be further strengthened, Mike Flynn, US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for national security adviser, told a delegation of South Korean officials, Korean media reported on Saturday.

An outspoken maverick, General Flynn, 57, joined the army as an intelligence officer in the 1980s.

After several years of successive promotions within Army intelligence operations, Flynn was nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama to be director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby reportedly said at the time that the retirement had “been planned for some time” and that then-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel “appreciates [his] service”. I am talking about the GOP, of course, which succumbed to the Religious Right and its bastardized form of Christianity starting back in the 60s with Goldwater’s defeat.

He has also stirred controversy with his dire warnings about the dangers of Islamist groups, complaining on CNN in June that the USA needs to “discredit” radical Islam, but that “we’re not allowed to do that right now”. So you can’t say Russian Federation is bad, they have to go home. It’s unbelievable. So we have a problem.

“The danger is that they’re going to pass legislation that not only alienates Muslim countries on which we depend for our security, but also it may alienate American Muslims and push them in the direction of our enemies”, said Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Kelley and Flynn Intel Group did not respond to calls and emails from the AP, and the Trump transition team did not respond to requests for comment. In Congressional testimony, Flynn said “Israel lives under the threat of total annihilation from Iran and other Islamic radical elements in the region-something the United States must never allow”.

“Unfortunately, only reason minorities voted for BO is the color of his skin and NOT for the issues….#Election2012”, he said on Twitter on November 7, 2012, immediately following President Obama’s re-election. Although Flynn has clarified some of his comments. As national security adviser, Flynn will run the National Security Council, a powerful internal division in the White House that coordinates national security policy. And in August, he spoke at an event in Dallas for the anti-Islamist group Act for America, saying that Islam “is a political ideology” and that it “definitely hides behind being a religion”. In the wake of the revelation and amid rumors Flynn was rumored to be a top contender for a position in the incoming Trump administration, Congressman Elijah Cummings, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, called for an investigation into Flynn’s potential conflicts of interest.

Flynn’s critics claim he’s Islamophobic.

Flynn’s lobbying work, according to Moss, could potentially jeopardize his ability to get cleared as national security advisor.

His unconventional thinking bumped up against more senior officers whose world understanding was shaped during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, Lechner said.

“There has to be some means to speed up how the government functions in this world”, he said.

And while Russian Federation was sending troops into Ukraine and bombing US-backed Syrian rebels Trump often asked: “Wouldn’t it be nice if actually got along, as an example, with Russian Federation?”