Trump’s clueless generals: No one should be impressed by the military minds backing The Donald
A rather formidable number of foreign policy and national security experts from both parties have endorsed Clinton over Trump including some high-ranking members of the military. But Trump has now pulled together a list of more than 80 retired senior military officers who would rather have an inexperienced demagogue for commander in chief than Hillary Clinton.
The list was put together by his No. 1 fan General Michael Flynn whose most memorable moment in the campaign was his rousing speech at the RNC which he capped by leading the bloodthirsty crowd in chants of “lock her up, lock her up!” Although Trump has proudly proclaimed that he knows more about ISIS than the generals do, Flynn is, by all accounts, Trump’s foremost national security adviser which is somewhat concerning since he’s teamed up with one of the most hysterical neoconservative writers in the country, Michael Ledeen, on a book about Islamic terrorism. (Ledeen’s most memorable essay during the run up to the Iraq war was a speculative piece that France and Germany were literally in cahoots with al Qaeda.)
this incoherent analysis which he published in an op-ed for the New York Post:
We’re in a global war, facing an enemy alliance that runs from Pyongyang, North Korea, to Havana, Cuba, and Caracas, Venezuela. Along the way, the alliance picks up radical Muslim countries and organizations such as Iran, al Qaeda, the Taliban and Islamic State.
That’s a formidable coalition, 
and nobody should be shocked to discover that we are losing the war.
Flynn was fired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency for his radical views and he retired from the military.
Another name on Trump’s list that leaps out is General Jerry Boykin, last heard from claiming that the U.S. is leading a holy war of Christians vs Muslims and being blasted by the Pentagon for writing a book full of classified information.
The list of weirdness from this fellow, now an executive with the family Research Council is a mile long.
My personal favorite is his contention that “Jesus, who was a real “man’s man,” will return to earth carrying an AR-15.”
The rest of the signers may not be quite this radical, but simply supporting Donald Trump puts them in the “Strangelove” category of wacko generals at this point. The good news is that compared to Mitt Romney, who had more than 500 on his list, Trump got a rather pathetic turnout.
He shared his deep knowledge of the complex dynamics in the middle east:
I always say Iraq and Iran were very similar militarily. They’d fight, fight, fight and then they’d rest. They’d fight fight fight. And then Saddam would do the gas. And somebody else would do something else. And they’d rest.
When asked about the threat of cyber-terrorism he had this to say:
You know cyber is becoming so big today. It’s becoming something that a number of years ago, a short number of years ago wasn’t even a word, Now the cyber is so big. You know you look at what they’re doing with the Internet, how they’re taking recruiting people through the Internet. And part of it is the psychology because so many people think they’re winning. And you know there’s a whole big thing. Even today’s psychology, where CNN came out with a big poll, their big poll came out today that Trumps is winning. It’s good psychology.
The fact that 88 generals actually believe the country is safer in this man’s hands than the experienced, qualified woman is almost more disturbing than the man himself. Almost.
http://www.salon.com/2016/09/07/trum...ng-the-donald/
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