My favorite here: "I figured that my strong support of NATO and my dismissal of the use of torture on prisoners would have the president-elect looking for another candidate."
I’m sure hes a very intelligent man but I’m already bored reading the excerpt. Does he ever get to the point?
Wall Street Journal is headed by greedy scroungers, therefore I will not subscribe (again). Do you think they enhabnce their image or income by shutting down the reader of the article at the end of paragraph three?
Tribalism- what you get when you force tribes to live together.
Mattis is a globalist fanook. One of the biggest disappointments in Trump’s Cabinet. Glad he is gone.
In retrospect it is obvious that Trump himself never expected to actually win. He was woefully unprepared to pick a cabinet that reflected his America First ideology or were able to destroy the plotters that tried to rig an election and prevent him from taking and exercising his office. Instead he crippled his Administration with globalists and insider swamp creatures. Sorry but that was his hopefully not fatal flaw. It is costing him and the country dearly.
Muh Democracy!! “Mad Dog” is a run of the shill for globalism.
Trump did the best he could hiring based on resume and reputation, but that also brought in swamp rats like this general. But to his credit he didn’t waste time booting them out.
If I were Mattis I’d be more worried about exposure to the Theranos scandal and the DoD/Amazon Cloud trainwreck.
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Ah yes. Spreading western liberal democracy at gunpoint [an oxymoron I should not have to point out - either you want and will get and will keep a democracy, or you don't get it and will lose it when handed it on a platter].
“I figured that my strong support of NATO...”
This shows lack of intelligence and inability to see the broad perspective. Doubt he was best to lead us into a full spectrum broad military strategy or war against China.
“....and my dismissal of the use of torture on prisoners would have the president-elect looking for another candidate.”
Mattis repeatedly and incorrectly droned on about how “torture” doesn’t work. Yet it is fact that this technique led us to Bin Laden.
FAIL
FUJM