REPORTS that Donald Trump has offered the post of national security adviser to Michael Flynn, a retired military intelligence three-star general, will do nothing to dispel the fears of the Republican foreign-policy establishment. General Flynn, tipped earlier this year as a potential running mate to Mr Trump, is a controversial and divisive figure whose career seemed to be over when he was removed from his post as director of the Pentagon’s Defence Intelligence Agency in 2014.
Since then, he has become known for guiding Mr Trump’s views on national security during the campaign and expressing strident views on the threat posed by what he calls “radical Islam” that at times verge on Islamophobia. General Flynn fervently believes that jihadism is as an existential challenge to America’s way of life and that defeating it should be an overwhelming national priority, far exceeding concerns about a rising China or a resurgent, nuclear sabre-rattling Russia.
In a book published earlier this year, General Flynn writes: “We’re in a world war against a messianic mass movement of evil people, most of them inspired by totalitarian ideology: Radical Islam. But we...Continue reading
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