Flynn: 'The Islamic world is an epic failure'

By Joel Gehrke (@Joelmentum)

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a potential running mate for presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, declared that "the Islamic world is an epic failure" and alleged that his bluntness about the threat of terrorism cost him his job in the Obama administration.

"We have failed to challenge their jihadist doctrines, even though their true believers only number a small fraction of the Muslim world, and even though everybody, above all most living Muslims, knows that the Islamic world is an epic failure, desperately needing economic, cultural and educational reform of the sort that has led to the superiority of the West," Flynn wrote in an op-ed for the New York Post.

That op-ed comes as the Trump campaign is floating Flynn, who has been advising the real estate mogul on foreign policy issues, as a potential vice presidential candidate this fall. Flynn used the article, titled, "The military fired me for calling our enemies radical jihadis," to explain why his career came to an abrupt end in 2014......To Read More.....