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Yochi Dreazen, Dan De Luce, and Molly O'Toole, Foreign Policy: Ex-Generals March Into Campaign 2016’s Political Wars
Trump's rise has retired generals and admirals playing politics — and weighing races of their own — in ways that haven't been seen in decades.
One of Washington’s best-known public figures is warning that politicians are spreading “toxic” anti-Muslim rhetoric that amounts to “blanket discrimination against people on the basis of their religion” — a seemingly clear, if unspoken, jab at Republican front-runner Donald Trump and his calls for banning Muslims from entering the United States and registering those already here.
The critique echoes similar attacks from Trump’s chief rival, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and other leading Democrats. But it didn’t come from Clinton or any of her allies. It instead came in a Washington Post op-ed by retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, arguably the most famous military figure of his generation.
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