Obama Ousting
CENTCOM Chief Marine Corps General James Mattis
Business
Insider Correspondent John Ricks:
“I am at
the point where I don’t trust this national security team… They strike me as
politicized, defensive and narrow. These are people who will not recognize it
when they screw up, and will treat as enemies anyone who tells them they are
doing that. And that is how things like Vietnam get repeated.”
General James N. “Mad Dog” Mattis USMC
"The
Marines on the ground look at Mattis like a superhero…They love him."
Former Marine and Business Insider writer Geoffrey Ingersoll
"I
come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears
in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all."
Marine General James Mattis in a meeting with Iraqi military officers in 2003
BY: Washington Free Beacon
Staff
January 20, 2013 2:49 pm
January 20, 2013 2:49 pm
“Word on the
national security street is that General James Mattis is being given the bum’s
rush out of his job as commander of Central Command, and is being told to
vacate his office several months earlier than planned,” reports veteran national security correspondent Thomas E. Ricks.
It now appears likely that Gen. Mattis, a Marine Corps legend, will leave
his post as head of America’s most important combatant command in March,
several months earlier than planned. Ricks continues:
Why the hurry? Pentagon insiders say that he rubbed civilian officials the wrong way — not because he went all “mad dog,” which is his public image, and the view at the White House, but rather because he pushed the civilians so hard on considering the second- and third-order consequences of military action against Iran. Some of those questions apparently were uncomfortable. Like, what do you do with Iran once the nuclear issue is resolved and it remains a foe? What do you do if Iran then develops conventional capabilities that could make it hazardous for U.S. Navy ships to operate in the Persian Gulf? He kept saying, “And then what?
Inquiry along these lines apparently was not welcomed — at least in the CENTCOM view. The White House view, apparently, is that Mattis was too hawkish, which is not something I believe, having seen him in the field over the years. I’d call him a tough-minded realist, someone who’d rather have tea with you than shoot you, but is happy to end the conversation either way.
The reported departure will have consequences for U.S.-Iranian relations, civil-military relations, Marine Corps morale, and inter-service politics, Ricks writes.
“I am at the point where I don’t trust his national security team,” he adds. “They strike me as politicized, defensive and narrow. These are people who will not recognize it when they screw up, and will treat as enemies anyone who tells them they are doing that. And that is how things like Vietnam get repeated. Harsh words, I know. But I am worried.”
Obama is expected to pursue a diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear program this year.
Evidence of Iranian entanglement in Iraq, low-intensity conflict zones in Africa and the Middle East, the Syrian civil war, Afghanistan, and in international terrorism continues to mount.
3 comments:
Jan 21, 2013 at 12:04 PM
Drew - USMC retired wrote: General Mattis is being relieved because of his comments about the Rights of the People to keep and bare arms is a right the Marine Corps will protect...Yep, we ALL knew this was coming. I was informed of it last week and we've been on pins and needles since.....PS. This General is NOT one to mess with when it comes to his belief in "TRUTH, HONOR, JUSTICE". He believes in the CONSTITUTION and the "OATH OF OFFICE" and has insured his entire command understood the "Bill of Rights" as well as their own OATH ... There will be others...and note the numerous "Marines" that are being forced to retire. THESE ARE **OUR** LEADERS when the fight comes......Semper fi ...
Re:3:02 P.M.
That's a good way to get people killed.
The release of General James Mattis from the Army is not an isolated incident. Such a tragic event falls quite flatly into the same track and pattern that have been fallowed by every dictator in the history of mankind, in order to secured their grip on power. The history goes back till Trasibulus King of Caria (389bC), famous because he showed to a visiting friend how to cut the wheat´s ferns that excelled for the rest in his orchard, in an allusion of what to do in order to silence any potential enemies. In modern times such a purge or obtruncation (Spanish: el desmoche de Trasibulus) has been quiet successfully applied by: Hitler, Stalin, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez and many others alike.
Needless to say that the people's future have been unmistakably written on the wall, by someone that follows the rule of history, and demands obedience and servitude from every one alive. It's up to any concerned citizen to sit dawn and carefully read the message , and interpret it's meanings. No mistake is allowed!
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