Retired Army Lt. General Michael Flynn was asked to testify before the House Armed Services Committee regarding Obama’s request for military force against terrorist groups.
The General didn’t mince words when he spoke and clearly defined what he would do and what the problems seem to be under the current administration.
From The Blaze:
When we give our military commanders a mission, we should allow them to execute that mission, and not overly constrain them with approved authorities, but then having to come back to the administration for permission,” Flynn said. “Either we need to review those authorities and those permissions, or we need to change the commanders because we apparently don’t trust them to do the job that we’ve given them do to.”
“We have become so overly bureaucratic, in coming up through the system to get permission to basically do things that, frankly, colonels on the battlefield or captains at sea are very capable of doing,” he added.Flynn offered his assessment of Obama’s request after a blistering five-minute set of opening remarks in which he said the Islamic State is a serious threat to U.S. interests, and that the U.S. must respond quickly and with violence.“This enemy must be opposed. They must be killed,” he told the committee. “They must be destroyed, and the associated extremist form of the Islamic ideology must be defeated wherever it rears its ugly head.”“There are some who counsel patience, arguing violent Islamists are not an existential threat and therefore can simply be managed as criminals. I respectfully and strongly disagree,” he added.Flynn also warned that the U.S. is “at war with violent and extreme Islamists, both Sunni and Shia, and we must accept and face this reality.”
Watch his remarks here:
Finally someone is saying what many have been thinking. It seems the Obama Administration are the only ones who have a problem admitting Islamic Extremists are indeed a ‘big effing deal’.
History has proven what these people are capable of and just how dangerous and extreme they are to the entire world, not just the United States. What we need are leaders like Flynn.
The Obama Administration has been tying the hands of our military since Obama came into office and Islamic Extremism had grown far worse and spread because of it.