No wonder we don’t win anymore.
MILLEY also.
I don’t think very highly of RAT military types who side with the commie RATS in the Swamp. Traitors.
Oh well, not all US generals and admirals can be Michael Flynn’s and General Edwin Walkers. / sarc
Bad Dog Mattis is a disgrace to the Eagle, Globe and Anchor. He wouldn’t be fit to polish the boots of Chesty Puller on his very best day.
Mattis and John Kelley and “Tex” Alles showed their incompetence when they were given senior positions in the Trump team and then promptly turned against him.
Lap dog Mattis. POS.
All we have left after the Kenyanesian Usurpation are Obama Generals.
Traitors.
Should the spineless Republicans believe in anything they say, they will fire EACH AND EVERY general selected by Dimb-Assed Dorkbama and Child smelling Brandon.
That’s each and every. Send these POS pretenders to something they are capable of managing....er...uh.....
What a terrible story. I used to hear how soldiers had to fight in Afghanistan with ridiculous restrictions. If you’re going to put them in a hellhole, let them fight like hell to win. Otherwise, what’s the point of being there.
Our people felt ashamed of the treatment of the military after the Vietnam War.
Along comes Desert Storm and our people are really impressed by Schwarzkopf.
Our people trusted our generals and admirals. They even admired them.
They did not closely examine them or the culture that produced them.
Couple that with arrogant and ignorant politicians like Pat Schroeder, and you have a real mess.
The truth will out
At one time Donald Trump was singing praises of James Mattis, calling him “the real deal”. Mattis was Trump’s choice, not someone Mitch McConnell forced him to select.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/306910-trump-calls-mattis-the-real-deal-after-meeting/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/01/james-mattis-secretary-of-defense-donald-trump
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The fundamental problem is that our leaders - military, political (national, state, local), and our bureaucrats at all levels are nearly universally on the take.
Mattis was particularly egregious in his greed and disregard for America. The General from Theranos and Amazon certainly pledged his allegiance to those that paid him the most, for that (my opinion) he should have faced a firing squad, and probably still should.
The problem of our General Staff in the military is particularly difficult. They routinely participate in a “revolving door” where recently retired general officers bribe active duty general officers with promises of positions with defense contractors immediately upon retirement along with generous compensation.
Its bribery. They should also face a firing squad. If they care about money over our country that much, they should never have been in the military, but that’s the problem. They may have started out patriotic and idealistic, but the power and ego (that somehow most of our past generals were able to resist) has become irresistible to the participants in the new military culture.
That there is never punishment at the vaunted flag ranks for serious offenses is also part of the problem. There is no reason we could not grab Mattis by the collar, even today, and send him to Leavenworth for being a lying, thieving, corrupt SOB.
Thats how you cure the military culture. Hold the leaders accountable, just like our great generals though our history did - and held themselves to a high standard.
Once it’s clear the officer corps doesn’t universally “get away with it” then we can work on the lower ranks, and drastically improve our readiness and capability.
Mattis is a clear example of corruption, but he is by no means the only example. But he’d be a great guy to make an example of by holding him accountable for his greed and corruption and turning his back on America for money.
Of American institutions, the military is the easiest to save, but it needs to be saved now. There’s a lot of house cleaning that needs to occur, hence my comment about it’s more than a few bad men. Fortunately, there more good men than bad, many of which have been held back by the bad men.
It is important to note, that cleaning up the military is for nought if the State Department and intelligence agencies are not reformed. Our foreign policy is directly related to the military’s use. The entire State Department needs to be completely dismantled and reconstituted with America First employees. Many intelligence agencies should simply be shuttered. There are too many to be effective. What’s left standing needs to be reformed. If these things are not done, the military will continue to receive incorrect information and used for the wrong reasons.
DOJ and the FBi are not the only deep state orgs that need a top down housecleaning
Having personally met and spoken with Mattis on three occasions—once before OIF became hot/heavy, and two other times in Iraq, I have to say that his demeanor and interaction with us was something we honestly believed in and thought of him as Patton 2.0. But something happened along the way (or I just missed it in the convoy) but the man who served as SecDef under President Trump was unrecognizable and Kelly unfortunately no better (and I don’t hear a word from either of them blazing Biden—but they were all over DJT after their departure). Re a second view, I wonder what Kelly felt (after losing a son in Afghanistan) when Biden/Austin/Milley oversaw the horrid withdrawal from that nation. Anyway, my Corps has been many things to me but I honestly do not recognize it as the moral and fighting force it was during the 24 years I served. Serious hope this is a blip on the screen, for if things stand as they are now being implemented (Pride Month—really!), the real Marine Corps will likely never be the same.
Blackmail from his involvement with Theranos!
Perhaps of interest.