"History will not be kind with the decisions made in 2003 going into Iraq." -- General Michael Flynn, former head of US Defense Intelligence (until last year).
And regarding Syria: "You have to ask the president, what is it that he is doing with the policy that is in place because it is very, very confusing. I can't tell you what that is, and I've been at this for a long time."
Regarding the "War on Terror" being waged by the US: "If you look at [the period from 2004 to 2014, ...] the number of our State Department designated terrorist groups has doubled. So something is wrong with our policy and our strategy."
In this interview, Mehdi Hasan (talking over the general too much) brings up one of my pet peeves with people who, only after leaving the administration, publicly fault what was done. Hasan asks General Flynn why he didn't do something while he held the job, and the general tells Hasan, "I hate to say, it wasn't my job." But that's essentially what he says. He says his job was to provide the best intelligence possible. He says he argued against supporting "moderate" groups in Syria, but that his arguments lost.
Although Flynn does say once or twice that he takes responsibility for some things (whatever that means), Hasan doesn't let him up.
The second half of the interview discusses Iran. All interesting.
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