CIA past director Michael Hayden: Trump Is Helping ISIS

[L. Coyote]

Michael Hayden: Trump Is Helping ISIS
“He’s feeding their recruitment video.”
05/30/2016

Donald Trump may have vowed to “bomb the shit” out of the Islamic State, but his anti-Muslim rhetoric may actually be helping the terror group, according to one of the United States’ top foreign policy experts.

Michael Hayden, the former head of both the CIA and the NSA, explained in an interview with the Guardian that “the jihadist narrative is that there is undying enmity between Islam and the modern world.”

“When Trump says they all hate us, he’s using their narrative,” Hayden said. “He’s feeding their recruitment video.”

Trump has proposed banning all Muslims, a religion of 1.6 billion people, from entering the U.S. ...............

I have a correction, billionaire Muslims would get exceptions, of course.

[Trust Buster]

1. ISIS is desperate to make this a Muslim vs. Christian war. They would have unlimited recruitment

potential. Trump is doing just that to win an election. Hayden is correct.

[malaise]

2. He should have said that when Bush was creating

ISIS

[L. Coyote]

4. Back when he was creating ISIS along with Bush!

Now he is signaling to the military, intelligence, and national security community to not support the presumptive Republican nominee.

He's done enough harm already without trying to change Bush's rank to second worst president by endorsing a far worse one!

[malaise]

6. Good point

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. Another reason to keep him out of the White House.

[L. Coyote]

5. Former CIA director: Military may refuse to follow Trump’s orders if he becomes president

Former CIA director: Military may refuse to follow Trump’s orders if he becomes president

Former CIA director Michael Hayden believes there is a legitimate possibility that the U.S. military would refuse to follow orders given by Donald Trump if the Republican front-runner becomes president and decides to make good on certain campaign pledges. ..............