http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-national-security-adviser-mike-flynn-called/story?id=43575658: "Flynn on ‘Radical Islam’
After Trump's characterization of the Manchester suicide bomber as an "evil loser"?
Flynn, a registered Democrat who had a decades-long military career, served under the Obama administration until reportedly being forced to retire early as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014. The early retirement resulted from "the stand I took on radical Islam,” he wrote in an op-ed for the New York Post.
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."
For Flynn’s part, he told Fox News in April 2015, “I've been at war with Islam, or a component of Islam, for the last decade.”
Flynn earlier this year released a book -- "The Field of Fight: How We Can Win The Global War Against Radical Islam And Its Allies” -- that he co-wrote sharing his views on what he called the “global war against radical Islam,” calling for the United States to develop a deeper understanding of radical ideology.
Flynn wrote, “we’re in a world war against a messianic mass movement of evil people, most of them inspired by a totalitarian ideology: Radical Islam.”
He also said in the book, “I don’t believe all cultures are morally equivalent, and I think the West, and especially America, is far more civilized, far more ethical and moral, than the system our main enemies want to impose on us."
“And we’ve got to stop feeling the slightest bit guilty about calling them by name and identifying them as fanatical killers acting on behalf of a failed civilization.”"
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