Trump's national security adviser says hes ready to fight another world war'

[DonViejo]

Review of "The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and its Allies" by Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn and Michael Ledeen

By Carlos Lozada November 22 at 1:15 PM

THE FIELD OF FIGHT: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies

By Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn and Michael Ledeen

St. Martin’s Press. 194 pp. $26.99

Late in the presidential race, Donald Trump warned that his opponent would start a new world war. “You’re going to end up in World War III over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton,” he told Reuters.

As it turns out, there was no need to worry about Clinton’s hawkishness. The next world war is already here. It’s a religious war. And the United States is losing.

Such is the vision of Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the retired Army three-star general who is set to become White House national security adviser after President-elect Trump takes the oath of office. Thus far, Flynn is best known for his fire-breathing speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer. But six days before leading GOP delegates in a frenzy of “USA!” and “Lock her up!” chants, Flynn published a book detailing this new fight — in his telling, a multi-generational and civilizational conflict against radical Islam. “We’re in a world war,” he writes, “but very few Americans recognize it, and fewer still have any idea how to win it.”

“The Field of Fight,” co-authored with foreign policy writer Michael Ledeen, offers an apocalyptic vision of Islam and terrorism, rails in Trumpian tones against political correctness, and assures readers of Flynn’s “maverick” credentials (even though calling yourself a maverick is pretty much the least mavericky thing possible). It also offers a tantalizing glimpse of the worldview Flynn may already be sharing with his new boss.

Though he calls for “destroying the jihadi armies,” Flynn is as focused on ideological warfare as he is on drone strikes or special operators. While Trump has said he’ll pursue a closer relationship with Russia and Vladi­mir Putin, in his book Flynn regards Moscow as part of a worldwide “enemy alliance” against the United States and concludes that the Russian president is an untrustworthy partner in the fight against the Islamic State.

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[AgadorSparticus]

1. They foolishly think that if they just go in and huff and puff,

That they can blow that ISIS house down. They will learn soon enough. The tragedy is that it will come at the expense of how many more lives?

[Ilsa]

2. I'll go to prison before I send one of my kids

to one of their damn religious wars.

[lpbk2713]

7. I think the prisons will run out of room.

If it ever comes to that.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Does he dream of this?

[MFM008]

4. My kid won't be going

Send your own.

[dhill926]

5. well you go right ahead and fight it....

then asshole. Along with your family and friends. And any piece of shit that agrees with you. Leave us sane ones out of it...

[rug]

6. He won't be fighting it. Other peoples's blood is easy.

[Generator]

8. This time Germany will save us

Hey I read that on twitter can't credit me. (what a nice third turn around for Germany though! And Drumpf is German-and the neo-Nazi's love "Europeans" so it's a natural fit)