[mountainlion]

Give full support to the muslims and see what happens.

[b4its2late]

As if the moslems wouldn’t hate our way of life anyways.....

[vbmoneyspender]

We pay a price for being a beacon of freedom. Just think of all of the money we could have saved if we had sat out the Cold War not to mention the European theatre of WWII.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Chesty Puller would knock this Marine on his tush.
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[Old Sarge]

Is anyone not convinced that Mattis is getting his pension, his health care and his dacha by the lake?

[Alberta's Child]

It's a shame a military guy like this can't speak his mind until after he's retired. Do a search on this guy's name (James "Mad Dog" Mattis) and see what kind of a track record he had in Iraq.

Just a little flavor of how he dealt with his own surrogates and with tribal leaders in Iraq to minimize attacks on his own men:

“I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you f#%& with me, I’ll kill you all.”

“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”

“I’m going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.”

[GenXteacher]

Perhaps it is time to make the Arab world pay a terrible price for irritating the US:

[cripplecreek]

Not near the price we pay for fighting Arab wars for islamderthal animals.

[CdMGuy]

I do not understand why this guy is an Ex US General. Judging by his comments, this POS seems like he fits precisely into what Obama is working to remake our entirely military.

[DoughtyOne]

Slamming settlements, James Mattis, former commander of CentCom, tells crowd in Aspen that moderate Arabs are forced to hide support for America.

And whose fault is this? The U. S.? Israel? Or is it the fault of rabid Arab terrorists? Three guesses and the first two don't count. I even gave a very subtle hint and I doubt this guy gets it.

[jakota]

We should enjoy being hated by muslims. It a sign that we’re doing things right. Just ask Saudi women, Syrian Christians and many others.

[huldah1776]

Mattis and Petraus. What a team. The only sacrifice they made was in the ROE which sacrificed OUR military. I wonder how different the Iraq and Afghanistan wars would have been (are) if they had followed the battle plans of Joshua of the Old Testament instead of Alexander the Great.

[CodeToad]

So he freely admits that Islam is a violent society bent on the destruction of Israel, and that “moderate Muslims”, the Trojan Horse of Islam, cannot support the US if we support Israel in any way.

[Nachum]

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[TADSLOS]

We pay a price for supporting Egypt, too...and Iraq, and Afghanistan and Pakistan and Europe and Mexico and Taiwan and South Korea, etc...etc....and now we are putting a down payment on Syria.

[MichaelCorleone]

This from a MARINE???

[Hoodat]

We pay a price for backing Israel

No, we receive a blessing for backing Israel. And we receive a curse for not backing Israel - kind of like what has happened since 2009.

[Farmer Dean]

You would think an ex-general would be smart enough to understand,doing the right thing always has a price.

[rbg81]

and that moderates all the moderate Arabs who want to be with us, because they can’t come out publicly in support of people who don’t show respect for the Arab Palestinians,”

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Definition of moderate Arabs: those who only talk about killing us in Arabic.

[Sherman Logan]

The General’s remarks make perfect sense IF one assumes that any sizeable group among the Arabs wants a two-state solution with Israel and Palestine co-existing in peace as equal states.

Since this is not an option because Arabs as a group are insistent on destroying Israel, it doesn’t much matter what inhibits movement towards an impossible goal.