CRUCIFYING GENERAL FLYNN

HE FAILED TO SIGN THE APPROPRIATE FORM--AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN

General Michael T. Flynn has had a distinguished US Army career, rising to the rank of Lt General. He served in the Army from 1981-2014. He was deployed for combat in Grenada, Haiti,  Iraq, and Afghanistan. He served as Trump's (short lived) National Security Advisor, and prior to that served President Obama as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.  Today, this patriot who has serve his country honorably and with distinction has had his good name smeared with no evidence or trial and is being characterized in the press as a modern day Benedict Arnold.  The truth is,  Flynn is the innocent lamb being sacrificed by the Democrats and some Republicans on the altar of Trump hatred in the unlikely and counterproductive  hopes of unearthing something—-anything—-to use against the  new President.  

It is clear that the accusations against  General Flynn by his anonymous accusers are simply internecine warfare and POLITICS.  They are fueled by the fruitless pursuit by the Democrats of the "Russian connection”. An idea fostered by the Dems to deflect blame from their shocking loss in the  2016 campaign and of the weak and ultimately unelectable candidate they presented to the nation. 

Flynn served honorably and well as Obama's Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.  In that post the record shows that General Flynn consistently warned President Obama about the danger of undermining the Assad regime in Syria, and of the ties to Islamic terrorism the Obama Administration’s anti-Assad forces, supported with CIA cash, and weapons had.  President Obama did not want to be faced with the facts about Syria counter to his domestic and foreign policy agenda.  Flynn was accused by to the Obama Administration of "working against policy".  But the Defense "Intelligence " Agency is tasked with gathering intelligence to help formulate policy.  Not the other way around.  Obama,  our scholar President, should have known that, but like some of his less well endowed predecessors—i.e George Bush who used this system to press the nation into a disastrous war— preferred to formulate a policy then gather “intelligence” which supported his policy.  Flynn also wisely favored working “constructively" with Russia in Syria.  He also warned about the perfidious nature of the Turkish intervention in Syria and its negative consequences for the US position and for Syria.  He was proved correct on all of these presidential advisories. 

One story about Flynn which gets wide and “gleeful” circulation in the anti-Trump press was an assertion by Flynn that he had seen "photos" of handwritten signs in Arabic,  posted in our Southwest border region.  (Flynn’s posting in Iraq an Afghanistan as an intelligence officer would provide him with credibility to recognize such evidence) These signs were purportedly used to help direct Muslims entering the US illegally.  The  press jumped all over this story to disprove it.  They found a compliant Border Patrol Agent who claimed he had never “seen any signs delineating smuggling routes”..and he assured them there were “none in Arabic”.  But no  one in the press bothered to ascertain just where this agent was posted in the Southwest.  Or did he even know what Arabic script looked like?  In the parts of the southwest I am familiar with, the natives wouldn't  know what an Arab looked liked, no less being able to identify the florid design of Arab script as a sign post. 

The fact is that General Flynn was fired for telling the truth. Had President Obama taken Flynn's warnings more seriously, and formulated foreign policy around facts rather than around political and domestic politics, Syria would not be the basket case nation it is now,  and thousands upon thousands of Syrian lives might have been saved.

The present “investigation” into the affairs of General Flynn, which are known only through rumors, unsubstantiated assumptions, as well as leaks to the press via Rep. Elijah Cummings (D) of the House Oversight Committee.  These all revolve around the possibility that the former General, after he retired from the Army,  “failed  to obtain required approval” before accepting funds from a foreign government.  The same Elijah Cummings and his Democrat colleagues who are so eager to pillory the General, completely ignored (and some helped obscure) the much more serious claims against Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who with her husband accepted huge sums of money from numerous foreign sources —including the Russians .   After General Flynn retired from the Army, like  every other Admiral, General, colonel, and any second class factotum who held any position of authority in the government, Flynn went out into the market place to sell his “expertise”.  Though the actual dollar amounts mean little, they are insubstantial by DC and Wall Street standards.  What we do  know is that General Flynn accepted some $45,000 to attend and speak at a government affair in Moscow.  Just getting to Moscow and staying for a few days, would account for a good portion of those funds.  (A British Air, first class flight might cost one as much as $13,000.)  General Flynn was clearly not enriching himself with these sums.  Another fee, of about $22,000, was accepted by Flynn from another foreign country for a similar purpose.  This is chicken feed by DC standards. 

As an example of the “revolving door” for Washington DC experts…let’s take a look at a real virtuoso, our past President.  Out of office for a little more than three months, and our former President has hit the speaking circuit with zeal.  In the last few days Obama sold himself to some Wall Street Bank for the princely sum of $400,000.00 for an hour’s speech, and then a few days later did it again at another venue, for an additional $400 Gs.  He made a shameful $800,000 dollars for a few hours in front of two audiences.   Not to be classed as androcentric, he sent Michelle out there too, to scoff up more money on a similar gig.  And they were not even “broke” like Hillary and Bill when the original touchstone-money-grubbing couple of all time left the White House. 

That is the crux of the “crucifixion” and the so-called “charges” against General Flynn. He failed to sign a form.  So far as we know, the General did sign the appropriate forms before he accepted these paltry sums while he was a private citizen.  If he didn’t, was this omission(of a mere formality), of such to cast him as a “felon” or a “traitor”,  or a Benedict Arnold?  As the MSM seem to like to do?  

How many retired admirals, generals, and other have been in the same circumstances and of which we hear nothing?

This nation should be  ashamed—no mortified— by the way we have treated General Flynn and others like him who have devoted their lives and careers to their nation’s defense and well-being.