Posted on 02/14/2017 7:21:09 AM PST by Rusty0604
Petraeus would be a disaster a stalwart of the old establishment in an administration that said it would drain the swamp.
In May 2016, he published what was essentially an anti Trump screed, saying that proposals to restrict immigration from Muslim countries that are hotspots of jihad terror shouldnt even be made, so as to avoid offending Muslims.
He was in favor of using al Qaeda jihadis to defeat the Islamic State, which would give us a region full of al-Qaeda jihadis with American weapons and materiel who hate the United States and want to destroy it. (This is essentially what we have now in Syria, where Obama armed moderates who were really al-Qaeda jihadis.)
When he headed up the international coalition in Afghanistan, he said that Florida pastor Terry Jones plan to burn the Quran was hateful, it was intolerant and it was extremely disrespectful and again, we condemn it in the strongest manner possible.
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