Does the American public really understand what happened to
Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn? Highlights of the case have been
thoroughly exploited by the shallow, left-leaning media as a convenient avenue
to attack President Trump. But important elements of the story
remain largely buried from public view.
The
tragic political demise of this distinguished general who was President Trump's
initial national security adviser, one of the key jobs in the White House, has
been well
documented. Former FBI director James Comey and the now
disgraced upper echelon of the FBI and, subsequently, Special Counsel Robert
Mueller maliciously trapped him, resulting in his ultimate prosecution and
pleading guilty to lying to the FBI. Not only did Flynn lose an
important and influential job in the White House, but they also bankrupted him
with legal fees; threatened his family; and, worst of all, damaged the good
name of a highly decorated military professional who served his country
honorably and with distinction as a member of the American Intelligence
Community.
The
despicable and unethical attack on Flynn immediately after his appointment by
Trump was just one element of a shameful Deep State campaign to
discredit and destroy the Trump presidency. As Trump's national
security adviser, Flynn had Trump's ear. He was potentially the Deep
State's worst nightmare. Flynn knows in detail how the Intelligence
Community and the FISA courts operate. With a 33-year military
career, including heading up the Defense Intelligence Agency, Flynn was an
existential threat to outgoing President Obama and his shameless and highly
partisan CIA director, John
Brennan, who cynically and criminally corrupted the Intelligence Community
for political purposes on behalf of Obama and Hillary Clinton.
The Conservative Tree House linked Flynn's fall from grace to his knowledge of what happened in Benghazi. Flynn knew how they lied and covered up the disaster that cost four American lives, including an ambassador's.
Behind
the attack-motive was the much bigger State Department and CIA problem with the
U.S. Libyan weapons and the flow to Syria. The U.S. sending weapons
into the hands of al-Qaeda was always the larger risk to the Obama
administration. This problem started with Clinton (State) and
Panetta (CIA at the time), but now those weapons going to Syria was an even
bigger problem. Flynn was not in place at the time (2010 – 2011).
There
is yet another major element of Flynn's fall from grace that, predictably, has
been ignored by the politically correct, anti-Trump media.
In
2016, Flynn published his book, The
Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its
Allies. That's the last direction of policy that Barack Hussein
Obama, Brennan (there is suggestive but unconfirmed evidence that Brennan is
a converted Muslim),
and their pro-Islamic allies wanted as a priority agenda of the new
administration.
You
will recall that Obama's well established Muslim sympathies led him to pressure
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak into inviting the Muslim Brotherhood to attend
his Cairo speech over Mubarak's objections. Obama later supported
Muslim Brotherhood-backed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi until Morsi was
overthrown by the Egyptian people with the help of the Egyptian military. Who
can forget Obama's
criticism at a prayer breakfast, where he never mentioned Islam, of
what Crusaders did in the name of Christianity?
That's
the same Obama who, in his May 19, 2011 speech,
called for Israel to be cut in two by connecting the Gaza strip, the Golan
Heights, and the West Bank (emphasis added):
The
borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually
agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both
states. The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and
reach their potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state.
Recall
that Flynn was dismissed by Obama as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA) in 2014, thus ending Flynn's military career. In his final
interview as DIA director, Flynn said he felt like a lone voice in thinking
that the United States was less safe from the threat of Islamic
terrorism in 2014 than it was prior to the 9/11
attacks. Flynn believed he was pushed into retirement for
questioning the Obama administration's public narrative
that al-Qaeda was close to defeat.
Journalist Seymour
Hersh wrote that Flynn told him his agency had sent a constant stream of
classified warnings about "the dire consequences of toppling Syrian
President Bashar Assad." Flynn recounted that
his agency was producing intelligence reports indicating that radical Islamists
were the main force in the Syrian insurgency and "that Turkey was looking
the other way when it came to the growth of the Islamic State inside
Syria." Flynn reportedly said the reports "got enormous
pushback from the Obama administration," who he felt "did not want to
hear the truth." According to former DIA official W.
Patrick Lang: "Flynn incurred the wrath of the White House by insisting on
telling the truth about Syria ... they shoved him out. He
wouldn't shut up."
In
addition to Trump's appointment of Flynn as national security adviser, Trump
had also named Sebastian Gorka as a deputy assistant. Gorka washed
out of the Trump administration in a few short months after accusations from
the Deep State and academia that he was a fringe academic with questionable
credentials. It's no coincidence that Gorka, an internationally
prominent and highly respected authority on counterterrorism, had published
a book with
a similar theme to Flynn's: Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War.
Flynn
and Gorka represented the first time senior government officials at the White
House level were willing and able to enunciate and lead America's war against
radical Islam. The globalists were horrified at the idea of this
sort of thinking at the White House level, which some claimed could offend or
alienate America's Muslim allies, particularly Saudi Arabia, which has been a
primary funder and enabler of Wahhabism, a fundamentalist and militant sect of
Islam. (Of the 19 9/11 hijackers, 15
were from Saudi Arabia.)
In
his book, Flynn is highly critical of past U.S. policy in the Middle East,
particularly regarding Iran, a principal supporter of Islamic
terrorism. Flynn believes that the invasion of Iraq was a major
error. The focus, he believes, should have been on
Iran. He slams Obama for not supporting the Green Revolution of the
Iranian people in 2009, when there was a chance to topple the mullahs from
inside the country. It didn't happen because, Flynn wrote:
[N]othing
of the sort will be undertaken by Obama because this president wants to be
remembered as the man who embraced the Islamic Republic, not as the American
leader who brought it down. (page 176)
Flynn
calls for strengthening America's relationships with Israel, Jordan, and
Egypt. He notes that Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi saved
Egypt from the clutches of the Muslim Brotherhood, and both Egypt and Jordan
have been at peace with Israel.
He
underscores Israel's importance to America, particularly in terms of
intelligence about radical Islam.
Of
the many mistakes of the Obama presidency, its open hostility to Israel is one
of the most damaging to our national security. I find it simply
incredible that an American president should believe a strategic alliance with
Iran to be more attractive than our traditional embrace of Israel.
... [W]e need Israel if we're going to defeat the radical Islamists, and
above all, the Iranians.
It's
quite clear why the Islam-loving Obama and Brennan did not want Flynn at the
right hand of the new president. Not only were their crimes likely
to be brought public, but also, their primary pro-Islamic thrust in the Middle
East would be reversed.
Here's
the core of Flynn's thinking:
We
have heard [Muslims] say, "We love death more than you love life"
over and over again and we have heard them chant "death to
America." Yet it does not seem that our leaders, and perhaps,
most of our people, are sufficiently against the barbarians who act in this
way. Political correctness forbids us to denounce radicalized
Islamists, and our political, opinion and academic elites dismiss out of hand
the very idea of waging war against them. No wonder we're
losing. They've gotten a free ride. (page 157)
What
to do? "We've got to get inside the minds of the
Jihadis. We should have done that a long time ago, because their
goal has been clear for nearly half a century."
Flynn
cites the incident of a PLO jihadist who shot to death the Jordanian prime
minister on November 28, 1971. "As he lay dying, one of his
killers bent over and lapped the blood that poured from his wounds."
Flynn
thus asks the obvious question, which still has not been answered by the
pro-Islamic forces in America: "Do you want to be ruled by men who
eagerly drink the blood of their dying enemies?"
Frank Hawkins is a former U.S. Army intelligence officer,
Associated Press foreign correspondent, international businessman, senior
newspaper company executive, founder and owner of several marketing companies,
and published novelist. He currently lives in retirement in North
Carolina.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/understanding_why_the_deep_state_had_to_take_down_general_michael_flynn_.html
