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" Is there going to be a peace in the Middle East? Not in my lifetime. "
Michael T. Flynn
Middle East
Peace
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" The tactical issue is ISIS or ISIL in the greater Levant area, which is essentially Syria, and Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, et cetera. But the wider problem is not just trans-regional in that part of the world, but it's also global. I mean, 40 to 50 countries supplying fighters to this current fight in the Middle East? Come on. "
Michael T. Flynn
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" We have to face the fact that ISIS and its army of like-minded jihadists are determined to win that war and believe they are on the path to victory. They may well be right. "
Michael T. Flynn
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" On military battlefields, we have defeated radical Islamic forces every time we have seriously gone after them, from Iraq to Afghanistan. "
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" Despite what you hear in the news from the Obama administration and the military, our strategy of conducting infrequent airstrikes and re-taking pockets of Iraq and Syria terrain will only help us achieve short-lived tactical victories. "
Michael T. Flynn
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" What we achieved under General Petraeus up through 2011, and defeating this threat that we faced out there, I mean, once we decided to come out of there, we squandered an enormous opportunity that, frankly, the military did actually provide our nation and provided the Middle East. "
Michael T. Flynn
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" You cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists. "
Michael T. Flynn
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You
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" The direction of this country is going into the wrong direction. "
Michael T. Flynn
Country
Wrong
Direction
" I could care less if someone is purple polka-dotted. "
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" The president says, 'What difference does it make what you call the enemy?' Are you kidding me? As an intelligence officer, I would never get away with that. I could never say, 'Well, you know, boss, I don't label this enemy that we're facing.' "
Michael T. Flynn
Intelligence
Me
Know
" As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him. The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state. "
Michael T. Flynn
Just
Same
True
" There is no substitute - none - for American power. "
Michael T. Flynn
American
Power
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" I vote for leaders, and honestly, I didn't vote much in the military because I served whoever is the commander-in-chief. "
Michael T. Flynn
Military
Much
Vote
" I think ISIS is achieving the objectives that they have set out to achieve. I think that they feel probably very emboldened. They feel pretty good. Their resiliency is extraordinary. "
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Achieving
Good
Achieve
" If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves. "
Michael T. Flynn
Then
Strategy
Going
" I believe our inability to achieve victory stems mainly from having lost sight as a nation of what it means to win. "
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Win
I Believe
Believe
" I think women have to be able to choose... sort of, the right of choice. They are the ones that have to make the decision because they're the ones that are going to decide to bring up that child or not. "
Michael T. Flynn
Women
Decision
Choice
" Be more conscious about what you say about foreign policy issues, because they are complicated. "
Michael T. Flynn
Policy
Complicated
More
" We don't go to war to protect Pizza Hut or Burger King or some other things, some of the nonsense I've seen on our battlefields. "
Michael T. Flynn
Burger
Go
War
" I mentioned it yesterday: I'm one of these people that - I don't - like, on the abortion issue, it's not something that - I'm very uncomfortable talking about it. I'm not gonna kid you. It's a very uncomfortable thing. I think that it's a legal issue. Definitely a legal issue. It's been decided upon by our Supreme Court. "
Michael T. Flynn
Think
Supreme Court
People
" There's a lot of information on Iran in the files and computer discs captured at the Pakistan hideout of Osama bin Laden. "
Michael T. Flynn
Iran
Information
Pakistan
" Within the government, within the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, you have practically eliminated any training or any use of the term 'radical Islam.' That's what we're facing. "
Michael T. Flynn
You
Justice
Training
" The world has lost faith in American leadership, and the threats are mounting. "
Michael T. Flynn
World
Leadership
Faith
" When my father served in World War II, he wasn't told, 'Go to Europe for four months, for six months, and then you can come back, and there'll be plenty of big bases there for you to serve on, and don't worry about it.' "
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Father
Back
Worry
" The intelligence community does not have complete 'eyes on' the totality of the Iranian nuclear program, nor can it guarantee that we have identified all of Iran's nuclear facilities and processes. "
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Intelligence
Processes
Community
" What we need to do is we need to come to grips with this cancerous form of the Islamic religion that is breaking down the Arab world order, and that is very clear. "
Michael T. Flynn
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World
Clear
" My God, war is not about bathrooms. War is not about political correctness or words that are meaningless. War is about winning. "
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War
Political
Words
" What we have to do is we have to make sure that our country is as strong as it can be economically and from a defense standpoint. "
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Defense
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" If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse. "
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Something
Up
Worse
" Number One, if there is no America, then the world will be a complete mess. "
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Mess
America
World
" We are in a global war with a radical and violent form of the Islamic religion, and it is irresponsible and dangerous to deny it. "
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