If you can’t name it, you can’t see it…
Via Newsmax:
The threat from radical Islam has at least doubled in the past decade while Washington refuses to even admit the enemy exists, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said Sunday.
The world is facing a “cancerous component of the Islamic religion” with a fanaticism that opposes the free world’s way of life, Flynn said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“The wolf pack closest to the sled is ISIS, but there are other wolf packs around the world right now that are actually part of this larger expanding, violent extremist version of Islam,” Flynn said.
Meanwhile, the American public is looking for “moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of … passivity or confusion,” from Washington, he said.
Flynn, who retired last summer, wouldn’t pin the problem on the White House alone or on a single party, though Republicans and a growing number of Democrats have been critical of President Barack Obama’s administration for failing to use the term “radical Islam” in defining the enemy.
“I think that there’s confusion about what it is that we’re facing,” Flynn told Fox News. “It’s not just what has been defined as 40,000 fighters in the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. It’s also a large segment within this radical version of Islam that is threatening our way of life.”
Pointing to a map showing the spread of violent Islamic extremism stretching across the Middle East and northern Africa, Flynn said, “Ten years ago I was drawing that map and there’s only two or three dots on it. Today, what you’re seeing on a map like that is a doubling of the enemy … a doubling or more.”