This is an out-and-out lie, as Trump didn’t justify any violence. Those who hear McChrystal should also consider the source, as McChrystal is a part of the military establishment that is enraged at Trump for trying to stop America’s endless, pointless, self-defeating adventurism. This is also a narrative that the Leftist establishment has adopted, likely as a prelude to large-scale attempts to silence and criminalize dissent from its agenda. James Comey has said the same thing. So has NBC’s Mehdi Hasan. Former NYPD Commissioner William Bratton said something similar. Clearly the powers have sent out their talking points, and now they are dutifully being propagated among Americans by the Propaganda Ministry.
“Retired Four-Star US Army General Compares ‘Radical’ Pro-Trump Protestors to Al-Qaeda,” by Jason Dunn, Sputnik News, January 16, 2021:
Earlier this month, the United States Capitol Building was stormed by a group of Trump-supporters, who believed the outgoing president’s claims that the November 2020 election was stolen through fraudulent means.
Retired Army General Stanley McChrystal compared the violent pro-Trump rioters to Al-Qaeda*, suggesting that both movements had a “powerful leader” who “justified their violence'”, and warned that radicalism in the US could result in an insurgency .
McChrystal, who formerly commanded US troops in Afghanistan, suggested specific parallels between the rise of the Islamist terrorist group and those who stormed the US Capitol last week, a violent attack that killed five.
Speaking to Yahoo News on Saturday, McChrystal noted that Trump has “legitimised” the increasing radicalism of his base with his so-called Stop the Steal slogan.
The top military chief warned that “the fabric of something very dangerous has been woven” and the US will feel the repercussions long after Trump leaves office. McChrystal added that the recent domestic attack reminded him of an emerging terrorist organisation.
“I did see a similar dynamic in the evolution of al-Qaida in Iraq, where a whole generation of angry Arab youth with very poor prospects followed a powerful leader who promised to take them back in time to a better place, and he led them to embrace an ideology that justified their violence”, McChrystal told Yahoo News. “This is now happening in America”.
The four-star general, largely credited with overseeing the airstrike that killed Iraqi Al Qaeda leader Musab al-Zarqawi, compared claims that the November 2020 election was stolen to the myth of ‘Lost Cause’ adopted by followers of the Confederate Army after their defeat in the American Civil War.
“President Trump has updated Lost Cause with his ‘Stop the Steal’ narrative that they lost because of a stolen election, and that is the only thing holding these people down and stopping them from assuming their rightful place in society”, McChrystal observed. “That gives them legitimacy to become even more radical”.
The retired general cautioned that the US is “much further along in this radicalization process, and facing a much deeper problem as a country, than most Americans realize”, adding that extremist sentiment will “not simply disappear when Trump does”….
Pray Hard says
Bureaucrat with a gun, nothing more.
mortimer says
He speaks for those who stole the election. He slanders those who expected an honest election.
Rob Porter says
Mortimer – When McCrystal got into conflict with Obama over troop numbers he wanted, openly disparaged him and got fired, I admired this general, thinking he was another independent like Patton. But since then it has been all downhill with my opinion of McChrystal. He let out that he had actually voted for Obama and now we have theses lies and other disgusting nonsense from him. Maybe he’s gone prematurely senile. So, it seems, the majority of America’s military leaders are complete plonks, not very bright, clueless about Islam and really dopey about communism and socialism. Evident, too, they are not much good at winning wars, so I suggest they invite in few a South African mercenaries to teach them. Former members of the old pre-ANC era, South African Defence Force, they know how to fight and they fight to win. Now evident, too, America is so corrupted and compromised that I doubt another four more Trump years could have restored even a semblance of the America I once travelled extensively, liked very much and admired. Possibly its democracy was too free, too little valued, too little taught about in schools and thus allowed in elements that were dedicated to its destruction. Further, America was founded upon Judaeo-Christian beliefs and values that led to it becoming great..That is now gone and without it that America is not coming back.
Carol the 1st says
Some general! Alex Jones easily outflanks him:
Breaking! Identity of Capitol False Flag Attackers Discovered! Trump Must Act Now Sunday FULL SHOW 1-17-2021
https://79days.news/watch?id=6004f306b66a15474ef06154
truthout says
Thanks for the offer I would like to suggest they talk to ww2 vets and their children. Then maybe they could get their nuggets back and fight for the right cause .Its crap like what this huckster is flapping his gums about .that makes most of us wonder why anyone fought for our freedom. since people or things like him .seem to think it made them terrorists .Hey crystal brain with you at the helm, the revolution would never have happened.,
juleonly says
He is describing ANTIFA and I know because I used to protest (NAFTA/WTO Seattle 1993 and Occupy against the Banks) and I talked to many who used to be black block and then peoples from Anonymous etc and violence is their way and taught. ANTIFA is as dangerous as any of the mobs including nazitypes. Supremacists cannot co-exist with diversity. Supremacy means one only as our group says.It is impossible to exist in a Free country.
terry the least says
Sir. You go get them! You and some other very smart people on here I am very grateful for; yours and their points are very helpful. God bless you.
David Gorton says
He needs to explain how he helped the Afghan War drag on so long.
oebele bruinsma says
indeed
Dieks62 says
He’s much worse: this Quisling domestic terrorist should be court-martialled, imprissoned in Gitmo, his properties seized & impounded!
Bad Penguin says
McChrystal is an obama sycophant and should just go away and shut up. He didnt have the manhood to say it while President Trump was still in office.
mortimer says
Despicable. Let him debate that with someone in a public debate.
He has stabbed many of the finest people in the US in the back.
Trump supporters want the best for their country and the best for other countries and a world kept peaceful through American strength.
Those are all noble aspirations.
somehistory says
All of these guys coming out with the same “message”…group thinkers, getting in line…have been stirring up hate so that the ones being spoken about will be targeted by other citizens.
I recall that when ‘o’ was in the ‘office,’ the messages coming out were how dangerous those who valued the Freedoms promised in the Constitution, who value ‘liberty,’ and other thinking along those lines, are to the country.
All of the time when Mr. Trump was running for office, and during the time he was in office, the message was that he was destroying ‘liberty,’ and he was a ‘dictator,’ and another ‘hitler.’ They claimed…incorrectly of course,,, that because he wanted to undo the ‘dreamers’ act thingy that ‘o’ set up…un-Constitutionally…he was trying to undo it by ‘unconstitutional’ means.
Now that they have succeeded in getting him out of office, and their guy in, it’s back to how dangerous are those who want ‘liberty,’ and ‘freedom,’ etc.
Before long, it will be against the law to say what we think about all of this. biden may be writing up the new law as I type this.
I believe we are in the “time of the end,” and that it will be sooner than anyone thinks that Christ will return with Judgment and Truth, and He will prevail. Jesus said that the “last days would be cut short,” so that people could survive the “great tribulation.”
I say as the Apostle John did, “Amen! Come, Lord Jesus.”
tgusa says
I’m surprised he didn’t begin with, the Trump supporter question. We have a new meme. Everyone I don’t like is al Qaeda or anyone who disagrees with what we have been doing is al Qaeda. Fine. He can go ahead and find people other than Trump supporters to invade weaker sovereign nations leaving a mess in his wake because he doesn’t like their leaders, politics or culture.
mortimer says
Agree. In the past, everyone who disagreed with McCrystal used to be ‘Hitler’. Now they are all ‘Al Qaeda’ … the very people we have fighting for almost 20 years..
Infidel says
Wouldn’t that make him an ‘islamophobe’? Tsk tsk
mortimer says
Yes, it would. TOUCHÉ ! He is an ‘Islamophobe’ for slamming Muslims by slandering US patriots in the same way.
He implies that it is wrong to want an honest election count.
tgusa says
When I was young my family moved to a new residential neighborhood that was sparsely populated. One of the few kids my age on my street was a Jewish boy. One day I went over to his house to see if he wanted to play. His dad answered the door and told me he had been run over by a car and was killed. My eyes got big, my jaw dropped to the floor and I was literally left speechless. It broke my heart. Even to this day I still remember him. But yeah, I’m Hitler or perhaps al Qaeda. Disgusting.
gravenimage says
So sorry this happened to your friend, tgusa.
tgusa says
Thank you gravenimage.
somehistory says
I’m sorry that your friend’s life was cut so short, and also that you had to experience that kind of loss at such a young age. Death is so hard to understand, especially for the young.
Infidel says
It won’t happen in this administration, but the next time we get a Patriotic administration – be it Trump or anyone else, but not GOP establishment – we need to take a hard look at the revolving door of the military industrial complex
These generals do a great job while in the service. However, once they retire, they are then hired by companies like Lockheed-Martin or Boeing, or by one of the parties, and then they have a mission to either promote military ideas to the party or party ideas to the military. The latter is how they’ve become more politicized than ever. Previously, it was selling war to our congressmen, now it’s slamming voters of the other side
All that said, I found it outrageous that the FBI was vetting National Guard troops to remove any fifth columnists, and were looking into their social media and other stuff. As somebody else remarked – the FBI is vetting the National Guard, but who’s vetting the FBI? The same organization that framed Carter Page and George Papadopaolos – we’re supposed to trust them to fairly investigate members of the guard? I never thought I’d say this, but today’s FBI bears a striking resemblance to the Soviet Cheka/NKVD in the 30s and 40s
tgusa says
“who’s vetting the FBI?” (and others).
That question has been on my mind for a long time. I believe they are being vetted by like minded fellow travelers such as this retired general.
Infidel says
Yeah, that’s what I’m afraid of
tgusa says
With everything that has been going on all the back and forth a lyric to a song keeps going round and round in my head, “everybody was kung fu fighting”. No joke.
somehistory says
They vet each other. And nothing untoward is found. Much like the ‘vetting’ of the CA couple that went on the Christmas party killing spree…the female moslim terrorist had “been vetted,” and nothing found.
Wellington says
The US military has been terribly compromised by woke persons placed at the highest levels.
How sad. How stupid. How inept. How destructive.
Mike says
and the left is blind as a bat
mortimer says
They all know that the steal occurred. They planned it and executed it with eyes open.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“The US military has been terribly compromised by woke persons placed at the highest levels.”
That is a true statement.
The depth and scope of the problem is not totally known, particularly at the highest levels.
That being said, the overwhelming majority of military officers are true patriots – just trying to complete their missions to the very best of their abilities…
PRCS says
After “Muslim extremist” Nidal Hasan carried out his “personal struggle” (injuring/wounding more than 30 people and killing 13) at Fort Hood, Army Chief of Staff General Casey said “Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”
Retired General Jack Keene regularly misleads Fox News viewers with the idiotic term “radical Islam”.
Numerous “reporters’ and politicians still parrot that “radical Islamic terrorism” nonsense.
And, whether he was uninformed or deceitful, I include General McMaster in that collection of fools.
Oh, yeah, and Marine General John Allen too.
James Lincoln says
PRCS,
Correct.
Compare and contrast with LTC Allen West…
PRCS says
Indeed.
David Gorton says
Diversity does not trump competence; as you will see with the recent group of incompetents Biden has installed in the name of diversity.
PRCS says
Some of them are VERY competent! Evilly so.
Phil Copson says
Going to war with your own populace is so much easier for petty tyrants – you have all the guns and there’s no travelling involved – you don’t even need to hire interpreters.
mortimer says
The return to traditional values is spreading Westerward from Central Europe and will eventually overtake the entire American continents. McCrystal hates it, but it is not ‘radical’ nor ‘extreme’. It is our TRADITIONS of God, family and culture.
The Left only got the El-Cid Dead Candidate into office by CARRYING HIM across the finish line.
James Lincoln says
mortimer says,
“The return to traditional values is spreading Westerward from Central Europe and will eventually overtake the entire American continents.”
That certainly would be great news. Any citations?
mortimer says
A new conservative age is rising.
https://www.turleytalks.com
James Lincoln says
Thank you for the link, mortimer.
I will explore it…
tgusa says
I read that riots are starting up again in Portland and Seattle but through their actions (or should I say inaction) the establishment has shown that those molotov cocktail throwing left wingers are a jv squad compared to selfie taking Trump supporters.
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
“Many on the left are promoting a recent video created by novelist and left-wing activist Don Winslow, which calls upon citizens to become cyber detectives to monitor and report fellow citizen Trump supporters to authorities while comparing the work of this “army of citizens” to that which led to the capture of al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden.
“On January 20, Donald Trump will become the Commander-in-Chief of a different army,” the slightly over two-minute clip begins. The words “This army” are then displayed as Trump supporters in Washington, DC, flash on the screen, Breitbart News reports.
Breitbart continues their report: The threat addressed is described as emanating from “radical” conservatives who live among us. The clip continues:
The greatest threat facing America today comes from within: radical extreme conservatives, also known as domestic terrorists. They’re hidden among us, disguised behind regular jobs. They are your children’s teachers. They work at supermarkets, malls, doctor’s offices, and many are police officers and soldiers.
In the years ahead, Trump will lead his army of domestic terrorists. He will encourage and incite violence. He will start a civil war.
We have to fight back, In this new war, the battlefield has changes. Computers can be more valuable than guns. And this is what we need now more than ever: an army of citizen detectives.
I’m proposing we form a citizen army, Our weapons will be computers and cell phones. We who are monitoring extremists on the internet and reporting their findings to authorities.”
The video, which has received over 3.5 million views since, then claims that the president will begin a civil war once out of office and that ordinary citizens must “fight back.”
So now that they have wrongfully and illegally removed President Trump, now they want to go after anyone and everyone that who supported the former President of The United States.
Literally they want to put every single person who believes in Trump into detainment camps have them “reprogrammed”.
Many on the left have already begun promoting the clip and encouraging viewers to sign on.
“America or Trump,” wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning senior art critic and New York Magazine columnist Jerry Saltz. “An army of citizens prepared to root out and arrest #TrumpsNewArmy in their new cause of Civil War and Right Wing Domestic Terrorism.”
“How many domestic terrorists will T**** inspire to violence against Americans in the next year?” asked Miami-based Huffington post columnist Grant Stern. “Probably a lot. #TrumpsNewArmy.”
“ARREST EVERY TRAITOR,” wrote former Congressional candidate from Florida Dr. Dena Grayson. Breitbart”
There is a lot more on the page….
https://americasfreedomfighters.com/unhinged-left/?utm_source=AFF-
mortimer says
The Leftists like McCrystal have rabies. They psychologically project their own rabidity onto others.
The Leftists have a mass hysteria composed of unrestrained hubris, superiority, smugness and hate.
somehistory says
Just as I have said on several threads, these guys are putting targets on the backs of people who supported Mr. Trump or just didn’t want biden.
A Gnostic Agnostic says
Once again, they project their own crimes onto the other side.
tgusa says
Iraq became occupied territory over a fake wmd scare and the people there didn’t like that. Anyone there that opposed the occupation was labeled as al Qaeda. I guess the message is, if you like your country and oppose foreign occupation you are al Qaeda. Same here in America, if you love your country you are al Qaeda. We have people here competing for the worst person in the world award and it is getting harder and harder to pick a winner.
somehistory says
“Countless leaders on the left are now arguing that removing President Donald Trump from office won’t be enough — they’re now calling for the president’s “cult-like” supporters to be “deprogrammed.” And it’s not just fringe politicians.
During an appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher” last week, former NBC anchor Katie Couric said, “The question is, how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump.”
Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi questioned whether the nation needs “a 9/11-type commission” to determine whether President Trump was colluding with Russian President Vladimir Putin “the day that the insurgents invaded our Capitol.” Clinton also made sure to include her favorite “deplorables” in her unsubstantiated conspiracy theory:
“But we now know that not just [Trump] but his enablers, his accomplices, his cult members, have the same disregard for democracy,” Clinton said to Pelosi.
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson and New York Times Magazine’s Nikole Hannah-Jones agreed that there is a need for “millions of Americans, almost all white, almost all Republicans” to be deprogrammed and punished, during an MSNBC interview last week.
Now, a story from the Washington Post is also preaching that narrative and even added that we need more restrictions for conservatives on social media and in the broadcast industry.
“So now we have to be deprogrammed? We’ve heard this over and over and over and over again, for months,” said Glenn Beck on the radio program Tuesday. He read through the shocking details of the Washington Post op-ed and discussed the extraordinary dangers of the latest anti-conservative movement in America.”
Watch the video below:
https://www.glennbeck.com/deprogram-trump-supporters?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
somehistory says
Many of Beck’s videos are on youtube. This one is not. I tried with the url because there was no sound, but youtube has a notice about biden being president and blah albh blah…and won’t play it, but fb will.
gravenimage says
Yes–the rhetoric against those who so much as voted Republican is off-the-charts unhinged.
vcragain says
Sorry you are delusional – trump has been egging on the RW extremist wannabee ‘revolutionaries’ for 4 whole years – he is actually pretty sick in his head I beieve & enjoys inciting other humans into behavior that he will not do himself….look how he treated the Capitol invasion people – told them he was with them & then just stepped neatly aside & let them all take the fall…he was watching it all unfold on TV & refused to try & stop them !!! THAT is a sick & vicious mind….all the poor little deluded people thinking trump had told them to take over the Capitol just did what they thought their ‘fearless leader’ wanted them to do, and now some of them are furious because they now know he had no intention of being in the group invading the Capitol HIMSELF – who me, are you kidding??? trump actually despises the lot of them, he thinks he is somehow top of th social strata -like Royalty- and in his head they are all low-lifes ! Such a lovely human being !!! Now it’s the little guys who are getting arrested & the Proud Boys are rethinking who their ‘friends’ are !
David Gorton says
Aside from the fact that your hatred nullifies anything constructive, there are no “poor little deluded people”, on this sight, to my knowledge, as you have been led to believe. For example, I’m 6’2, and you would have to stand on my shoulders just to kiss Trump’s butt. So there’s that, for beginners!!
somehistory says
Since there is at least one big lie in what you wrote, it nullifies anything and everything else.
Mr. Trump was still giving his speech when the bm guy…sullivan…and his crew broke windows, egged on others, called for ‘burning” the building down, etc.
Mr. Trump could not have been “watching it unfold on tv.”
There were people who were listening to him who have given eye witness evidence that he was still speaking at the time of the …some cops allowed the ruffians inside…so one may call it a partial ‘break-in,..” riot and even then, had to learn about what happened later when they reached their hotel rooms.
So, your comment will not get much traction here…only a few who come to post such stuff as you will agree. The majority know better.
Shirley Ann says
Thank you to Somehistory, you spoke the TRUTH, but the MEDIA & DEM MOB HAD ALREADY CONCOCTED THEIR UNTRUE VERSION. I watched Bret Baier coin the Term, RIOTERS, to any Trump Supporters at the Rally & the word, INSURRECTIONISTS BEGAN TO BE UTTERED.
It was a Done Deal, before PRESIDENT TRUMP even finished his Speech.
gravenimage says
vcragain used to be an Anti-Jihadist, yet now apparently believes that Americans who vote Republican are al-Qaeda.
One need not even be a Trump supporter to realize how unhinged this is.
gravenimage says
Retired Army general likens Trump supporters to al-Qaeda, says both had ‘leader’ who ‘justified their violence’
……………….
Just deranged calumny.
Note, also, that one of the few times these tools say anything negative about Jihadists is when they are claiming that conservatives are just like them.
deeperinfo says
So shallow and weak, and parrots unchecked lies.
terrible at winning wars and worse at political knowledge and considered judgement.
no longer a doubt – he is an ex-general but a ranking idiot.
James says
McChrystal, another pinko rat.
tgusa says
Thanks somehistory. I felt bad for his parents but I had no idea what to say. I found out about it on Easter Sunday so every year I have a bit of a reminder. As bad as losing someone you care about is it is somehow easier in the long run when they don’t die on recurring days of special note.
tgusa says
Whoops, comment wanted to go where it wanted to.
Im4truth4all says
McCrystal simply identifies with the democrat/marxist philosophy which was eloquently articulated by George Orwell and is as follows:
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it (…) To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality“ – George
Frank says
He is so irrelevant. Wwhy does anybody even bother to listen to his nonsense.? A major disgrace to the uniform IMHO