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War, War, War See other War, War, War Articles Title: TRUMPS MILITARY ADVISER SUGGESTS KILLING THE FAMILIES OF THE TERRORISTS General Advising Donald Trump Says Killing Terrorists’ Families Might Be OK A top military adviser to Donald Trump expressed qualified support for Trump’s proposal to kill terrorists’ families on Thursday, telling Al Jazeera that it would depend on the “circumstances of the situation.” The statement from Gen. Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014, reignited a debate about whether the military in a Trump presidency could be counted on to refuse blatantly illegal orders. CIA directors past and present have asserted that Trump’s proposal to bring back torture methods “a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding” was meaningless, because CIA officers would refuse to carry out such orders. Trump insisted during a Republican debate in March that “they won’t refuse. They’re not going to refuse me. Believe me.” Flynn, who was appointed by President Obama, is one of the few credentialed military officials in Trump’s inner circle. But when Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan asked Flynn directly “Would you kill the family of a terror suspect, yes or no?” Flynn replied that he would have to “see what the circumstances of that situation was.” Watch an excerpt and the entire interview. Hasan responded, astonished: “Are you kidding me? What circumstances would justify the killing of a family – a wife and a child?” Flynn answered by weaving a hypothetical about a former ISIS commander using human shields: “The circumstances could be – it could be something like an Omar Al-Bagdadi, let’s say he’s still alive, and we find him in a place where its very difficult to get into, and he is actually using children to protect himself, what do we do? How do we actually go get him if killing him is better than capturing him? Hasan pointed out that Flynn was describing “collateral damage,” not intentionally targeting children. Flynn acknowledged that troops have a duty to disobey illegal orders, but refused to say whether he would, remarking only that “these are difficult political decisions…” and that “he would advise differently.” During the interview, Flynn also defended his tweet that “fear of Muslims is rational:” Flynn said “I’m not saying to be fearful of all Muslims,” telling Hasan, “otherwise you and I would be wrestling right now.” Hasan cheekily responded “and you’d probably win, which is why I should be afraid of you.” ] Zharkov: Obama already did that. He used drones to kill a terrorist and his son, and still more drones to kill terrorists in wedding parties and other family gatherings, so it's nothing new. Now if Trump used drones to kill terrorists attending Bar Mitzvas, that would be new. Poster Comment: Might be one way to get Israel "off the map." No "country" has employed terrorism as persistently and viciously, starting with Jew squatters and Stern and other gangs in Palestine ever since British Balfour allowed Jew settlement "without prejudice" to existing inhabitants in 1917. In addition to terrorist acts against Palestinians to steal their land Zionist terrorists destroyed British headquarters in Palestine, false flagged US in the Liberty ship attack, more recently NY WTC to get Iraq and Afghan wars going. So now if we attack families of terrorists there goes all or most of Israel, not to mention their facilitators abroad. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
This would be ancient Roman or modern mafia stuff. No civilized country even considers such barbarity. Trump and the other bloodthirsties sit around thinking up ways to kill more people -- of certain varieties, and those only! TERR'ISTS. Yeah. Sure. -------------------------------------------------------------- |
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