Mattis is a distinguished fellow devil dog and an honorable man more so than ANY person in Washington. The line about Generals being political is tiring. Every single person on this earth is political in their careers in one way or another. Almost every single person is jockeying for a leg up in their careers. Generals and line soldiers aren’t just your runnif the mill dummies who should “shut up” and get in line. That may have been the case some decades ago that got thousands killed but today each offers some insight to any ensuing battle. Could be something large or something small but it is a thinking military across all ranks not mindless zombies.
Presidents and politicians are just that politicians and some are leaders. Good leaders listen to those they put in charge and those with FAR FAR more experience in global affairs and war. Your logic is akin to walking into a hospital and the surgeon tell you you need an immediate operation which you totally discredit and go with the nurses opinion of no operation well because the doctor is only in it for the money
That's funny right there.
Defense Secretary is a POLITICAL job. It is NOT a military job.
The military is for DEFENSE!
Get OUT of Syria and Afghanistan NOW! We have no business there any longer.
I see all those heroes on those commercials for “Wounded Warriors Project” etc. and my heart breaks for them. I think “for WHAT?”.
NO MORE NEED TO SACRIFICE ONE DROP OF BLOOD FOR SYRIA OR AFGHANISTAN or an arm or a leg or both arms or both legs or both arms and legs or an eye or both eyes or a face or a mind.
We should have turned Kabul into a glass parking lot and been done with it! (not too late)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3edi2Wkr5YI
Dr Strangelove (55 seconds)