Ret. Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney said the Obama administration was "too politically correct" when it came to combating radical Islamic terrorists and the U.S. must recognize the "very dangerous ideology" it faces across the globe Thursday on The Kelly File.
One example he gave to host Megyn Kelly was the case of Maj. Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood Massacare, and how that case had not been designated an act of terrorism by the Army.
"Know thy enemy," McInerney said. "The Army still has not said that was a terrorist act and awarded those people wounded and killed with the Purple Heart and the appropriate awards. If you go into any of the curricula in the FBI and DOD., they've taken the word Islam and radical Islam out of it, so we are not acknowledging that this is a very dangerous ideology that we are fighting. We are looking the other way. We are too politically correct, and we must change that."
McInerney also expressed reservations that the U.S. was sending a message around the world to radical Islamists that it was "leaving the battlefield."
"There has been a dramatic rise in radical Islam sweeping across not only the Middle East but Central Africa," he said.