Posted on 02/21/2017 10:59:05 AM PST by Jyotishi
President Trump has confirmed that retired Lt. General H.R. McMaster is his new choice to be his National Security Adviser.
Score one from the swamp. A source that has asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals has informed me that he was present in August 2014 when McMaster was the featured speaker for the President's Lecture Series at National Defense University in Washington, D.C. McMaster addressed an assembly of all the students in the colleges of the National Defense, including the National War College, the College of International Security Affairs (CISA), the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy (formerly the Industrial College of the Armed Forces), and the others. There was, therefore, a large crowd, and multiple witnesses.
In his address, McMaster said flatly: "The Islamic State is not Islamic."
Now, this was during the Obama regime, when that was the official policy of the U.S. government, but President Trump has repeatedly criticized his predecessor (and his 2016 election opponent) for not being willing to call the problem of jihad terror by its right name. Since he has become President, he has repeatedly reiterated his determination to eradicate "radical Islamic terrorism." If McMaster genuinely holds the view that the Islamic State is not Islamic, then he is a disastrous pick as National Security Adviser, and will continue the willful ignorance of the Obama administration, hamstringing efforts to understand, and counter effectively, the motives and goals of the enemy.
If McMaster was stating his conviction and not just the party line, this would represent a victory for the compromised Republican establishment that is trying to neutralize Trump and keep the swamp from being drained. Say it ain't so, General McMaster.
He won’t be making policy he will be implementing President Trump’s policy and adhering to President Trump’s beliefs. Period.
He probably never figured McMaster would be back in any official capacity so no harm done by adding to his rep as a maverick by saying he liked him.
McMaster just has to make one realistic statement of fact that disagrees with McCain's lies and BS for McCain to start slandering him and talking trash about him.
FWIW, I'm not all that worried about McCain.
Folks in his age group have a lot of accidents.
It is the spearhead of islam.
General Mattis uses the term Radical Political Islam. He notes that more Muslims have been killed by Radical Political Islam than Americans.
Islam is not monolithic, just as Protestants are not all the same.
Since the military has allies and fights side by side with muslims fighting the Radicals such as the Muslim Brotherhood, I think they are reluctant to paint all of the Islamic world, with the same brush.
Mattis is adamant that he believes that Radical Political Isalam needs to be stamped out, but that doesn’t include every muslim in the world.
Every muslim in the world is not a terrorist.
And you don’t try to stamp out every muslim in the world.
But every muslim in the world needs to find a new religion. Because islam is going down.
Some high-ranking imams had better wake up, summon a lot of major councils, and issue fatwas condemning terrorists to Pig-Hell. There are 14 centuries of a non-reformed "religion" to catch up with... [/sarc]
I think it’s very important to limit the immigration of those likely to lean toward Sharia rather than the constitution, so I wouldn’t mind an almost total ban on all the Muslim countries till Isis is stamped out.
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