Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn sounded off on the terror attack in Nice, France, tonight, saying that he wants to see the leaders of Muslim-majority nations stand up against "this radical form of this ideology in their bloodstream and declare that this thing cannot exist on this planet."

The former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency said he doesn't know who exactly carried out the attack, but said there's been a lot of "chatter" by jihadist soldiers praising what happened.

"I want these leaders in this Muslim world that have this radical Islamic ideology festering, metastasizing, to stand up, and stand up tonight and be counted, and say something to condemn this attack that we have just seen."

Flynn said "we have not set up an international set of strategic objectives to go after this very vicious, very barbaric enemy."

He also called the current situation a "world war," though not like one anyone has read about in history books.

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