Retired US General Admits Military’s Role in Creating ISIS

[Judi Lynn]

Retired US General Admits Military’s Role in Creating ISIS
Carey Wedler
July 17, 2015

(ANTIMEDIA) In a forthcoming interview with Al Jazeera English set to air on July 31st, a former United States general—who helped craft some of the most controversial tactics in America’s foreign wars—warned that drone strikes create terrorists. Retired Army General Mike Flynn also criticized American torture tactics and condemned the United States for the integral role its foreign policy has played in spurring the creation of the notorious Islamic State.

Flynn was a top intelligence official following 9/11. He worked for the Pentagon’s internal intelligence agency—the Defense Intelligence Agency—before conflict with Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper forced him to resign a year ahead of schedule. Following his resignation, Flynn became an outspoken opponent of Obama’s foreign policy because, in spite of the president’s expansion of military operations, the general believed Obama had not been sufficiently aggressive in battling the Islamic State.

Now, however, the hawkish general is open about his concerns about the American military’s role in the world. In his interview with Mehdi Hasan of Al Jazeera, he addresses the drone war, which grew considerably under President Obama:

“When you drop a bomb from a drone … you are going to cause more damage than you are going to cause good,” he said.
When Hasan suggests drone strikes create more terrorists than they kill, he responds, “I don’t disagree with that,” calling the drone program a “failed strategy.”

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[merrily]

1. Duh? Al Qaeeda Iraq, ISIS and a bunch of other groups--and it didn't start with Obama, either.

I don't know how much stock one can put in Osama's words, but one of the videos that was released showed him saying that he vowed revenge on the US when he saw the blood of children running in the streets of Beirut, thanks to Poppy. (Of course, Eisenhower had invaded Lebanon as well, but Osama was not old enough to remember that one.)

And, then, of course, the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions and all the rest of the stuff we do, and have long done, in that region in service of oil interests and the "military industrial complex."

Framing it in terms of "Muslim extremists" or "radical Islamists," instead of focusing on behavior, doesn't help, either. I have little doubt that they they hear mostly "Muslim" and "Islam."

[Hoyt]

2. Clearly, bombs from a drone, plane, or whatever, aren't going to endear anyone. But,

sounds to me the General prefers troops invading and occupying land. That doesn't help either.

[newfie11]

3. But the MIC got what they wanted

Perpetual war it seem!
They make lots of money while the slaughter of innocents continues.
Of course this creates enemies and it continues.
Olagargs love it