Mattis opposed Trump on every or almost every issue.
It seems to me that high ranking military shouldn’t profess opinions on anything other than breaking things and killing people. Other issues are unlikely to affect that.
“I look forward to carrying out Trump’s vision”
Well that would be nice... For a change. Two questions: Troops on the borders, trannys.
My question re Mattis is what did he bring to the table that was worth POTUS putting up with Mattis obstruction & push back on: Paris Accord, Climate change, transexuals openly serving, pulling back from Iraq?
POTUS has selected several of cabinet members who were not aligned with his overall policy positions: Tillerson, Gary Cohn, Shulkin, McMasters, because they had unique expertise that would be useful for one phase of his agenda.
Shulkin had the knowledge and relationships to start the reformation of the VA Healthcare System. Once he had accomplished the initiation and became a hindrance he was replaced.
Cohn was needed through passage of tax reform and then his adherence to Globalist positions and attempts to undercut the President’s agenda ended his tenure.
Tillerson had the expertise & relationships (from his tenure @ Exxon) to allow POTUS entry and credibility into the Saudi/Arab countries. Once POTUS had forged his own relationships and sold the Arab world on a vision of the future build on mutual goals & cooperation Tillerson’s peevishness, backstabbing and refusal to promote POTUS agenda rather than his own lead to his dismissal. Tillerson was another globalist destroying the Boy Scouts with political correctness, Paris Accord/Climate Change promoter, pusher of deference to the UN and any other body outside America.
McMaster was a Muslim apologist and a snake in several other Globalist ways. In his lectures he twisted himself into knots claiming that it was wrong to equate terrorism with Islam because you needed Islam to be a partner in terrorism. So you could never suggest that these people were actually Muslim or you would alienate the remainder of the Muslim world. He in common with other jettisoned cabinet members believed in the supremacy of corrupt bodies such as the UN & NATO.
POTUS needed people like that to gain insight into the power players at those bodies as well as the webs of power, influence & cash transfer. Then he laid out his demands on NATO, pay your share and stop treating US like the cash cow that you beat regularly. Phase accomplished no further upside to keeping these men around.
Mattis seems to have been an excellent general and he knew what was needed to annihilate Isis. With that mission well underway perhaps his useful phase was over and to really refocus America’s mission a new man was needed.