"You have to really ask the President what is it that he actually is doing with the policy in place. I'm sitting here today and I can't tell you what that is, and I've been at this for a long time."
Rise of Islamic State was ‘a willful decision’
Former DIA Chief Michal Flynn The White House decided to support armed rebels in Syria despite intelligence warnings forecasting the rise of the Islamic State.
In Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn confirms to Mehdi Hasan that not only had he studied the DIA memo predicting the West’s backing of an Islamic State in Syria when it came across his desk in 2012, but even asserts that the White House’s sponsoring of radical jihadists (that would emerge as ISIL and Nusra) against the Syrian regime was “a willful decision.”
[Lengthy discussion of the DIA memo begins at the 8:50 mark - 'Willful Decision' quote is at about 12:20]
Amazingly, Flynn actually took issue with the way interviewer Mehdi Hasan posed the question—Flynn seemed to want to make it clear that the policies that led to the rise of ISIL were not merely the result of ignorance or looking the other way, but the result of conscious decision making.I'm still digesting this interview. Thus far I'd have to say this may be one of the most revealing clips I have encountered with regard to our "War on Terror".
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Should we be in the business of arming either side in what is essentially a civil war? Should we arm within the Muslim-majority geopolitical space when it is ablaze? They don't think like Americans. That is o.k. But we need to consider the culture in which the mass is suspended. It is very different than our culture.
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