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Out of Uniform and Into the Political Fray

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn retired and immediately began bashing the administration. Has he crossed a line?




Out of Uniform and Into the Political Fray

The witness at the June 10 House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing was tossing the equivalent of red meat to his Republican questioners, who were practically slavering in gratitude.

President Barack Obama’s plan to impose “snapback sanctions” should Iran violate a nuclear deal? “Wishful thinking.”

The awkwardness of having U.S. trainers and Iranian forces both in Iraq helping to counter a common enemy? “We have allowed this thing to get so out of kilter.”

The president’s June 8 remark that “we don’t yet have a complete strategy” for training Iraqi forces to combat the Islamic State? “I was stunned by his comments,” the witness said. “Stunned.”

But the wiry, sharp-featured man giving the representatives what they wanted and then some was no pundit from a right-leaning think tank, nor was he an alumnus of former President George W. Bush’s administration. No, the man in the gray suit sounding the alarm over the current administration’s approach to the Middle East was none other than Obama’s most recent director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.

Since taking off his uniform last August, Flynn, 56, has been in the vanguard of those criticizing the president’s policies in the Middle East, speaking out at venues ranging from congressional hearings and trade association banquets to appearances on Fox News, CNN, Sky News Arabia, and Japanese television, targeting the Iranian nuclear deal, the weakness of the U.S. response to the Islamic State, and the Obama administration’s refusal to call America’s enemies in the Middle East “Islamic militants.” Flynn is hardly the first retired senior officer to criticize a sitting president’s policies, but in the post-9/11 era, no one else has combined Flynn’s rank and high-profile position at retirement, and the speed — once out of uniform — with which he began lambasting the policies of the administration he had just been serving.

Yes, it is, and it's a lot more complicated than 'President X is a hypocrite about climate change because he flew to a meeting about it'.

What's ironic about it?

You expect them to get things done by skype or email?

Last time I checked there were 15 Republican Candidates flying all over the country despite the fact that only 3 or 4 of them have any distant hope of actually being elected. Are you going to bring up their carbon emissions at their next campaign stop? Unlikely.

Last time I checked there were 15 Republican Candidates flying all over the country despite the fact that only 3 or 4 of them have any distant hope of actually being elected. Are you going to bring up their carbon emissions at their next campaign stop? Unlikely.

Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.

Dec 1, 2015 - 08:35am PT
So now more Personal attacks

are you just retarded??

Why?
Why do you have to show such juvenile behavior, we were trying to debate something here

You win, you are the King of Personal attacks
Now stop

philo

climber

Dec 1, 2015 - 09:11am PT
Craig the answer about your question regarding Le Chuff is that he is a duplicitous twit. He is sp terrified of what he can't control that he reacts like a child waking from a bad nightmare.
He is so desperate to not hear anything but the voices in his head that he attacks anything that doesn't conform to his narrow minded and bigoted view of the world. Just look at anything he responds to or posts. Clearly he is afraid of change and challenge and does what ever disruptive act he can to stiffle adult discussion. Like taking a shit! in the swimming pool so everyone else with leave him to wallow and bathe in his own fetid stink. He is the SuperTopo Donald, the tRUMP of the Taco. The more people call him on his lies and personal attacks the louder and ruder he gets. This is the down side of US military training, some get lost and never make it back.

Just wait though. Ignoring his own vile putrifications he will comaback and conflate and equate my calling him a twit with his own behavior. Then he will retell one of his bald faced whoppers thinking that people will believe im this time. Deny, deflect, delete.

You of course C-FRY must be referring to Philo, Crankstar, Norton and a slew of others here. Correct?

but when one person who actually has the power to influence global change