An ID card for Muslims? Shutting down Mosques? Retired top officers say Trump’s national security notions are crazy—at best. Trump “has proven himself useful in defining the outer limits of the spectrum of thought...” His ideas, “short of internment camps but not much.” Donald Trump and Ben Carson have spent the last 24 hours proposing bigoted and constitutionally questionable methods for keeping tabs on Muslims and Syrian refugees. And that’s causing some retired generals and admirals to speak out against the GOP presidential frontrunners. The former top military officers contacted by The Daily Beast said not only are Carson and Trump pushing ideas that are unworkable, they would actually...
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