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posted by martyb on Monday December 31 2018, @05:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-a-wicked-web-we-weave dept.

"Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ resignation, which shocked Washington’s national security establishment and rattled America’s allies, was sealed in a fateful 18-hour period that saw President Trump resolve to withdraw troops from Syria – alarming Pentagon officials who see America’s role in the region as crucial." foxnews.com/politics/behind-the-scenes-of-the-mattis-bombshell-more-resignations-expected-after-protest-exit


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @10:42PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @10:42PM (#780410)

    Don't know why you modded that down. He was a villain before Trump hired him, just like Comey and the rest. Now he's a victim?! God, really, who are the psychos around here?

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @11:51PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @11:51PM (#780435)

    Don't worry. wswswswswsws 'members. The resignation of General Mattis and America’s crisis of class rule [wsws.org]:

    Within the US working population there is deep hostility to the never-ending wars waged by US imperialism for more than a quarter-century. Justified in the name of defending against “weapons of mass destruction,” waging a “global war on terror” and upholding “human rights” these wars have killed well over one million people, demolished entire societies and cost trillions of dollars.

    What does Washington have to show for it? After 17 years of fighting in Afghanistan, the Taliban controls more territory than at any time since 2001, and the US has been forced to pursue talks with Taliban representatives in the UAE, including on the withdrawal of US and other foreign troops from the country.

    Iraq remains crisis-ridden and deeply divided along sectarian lines as a result of the US war launched in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein. Libya, where the US-NATO war for regime-change ended in the murder of Muammar Gaddafi, is in shambles, racked by continuous fighting between rival militias. And in Syria, the attempt of the US and its allies to overthrow Bashar al-Assad by arming and funding Al Qaeda-linked militias has failed, while claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands and creating millions of refugees.

    Gen. Mattis, who earned the nickname “Mad Dog” for leading the bloody US campaign to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2004 and boasted to his troops during his command of US forces in Afghanistan that “it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot” Afghans, is now being hailed as an American hero, a rock of stability and sanity whose departure has set the ship of state adrift.

    Prepare for unforeseen consequences (artistic representation [deviantart.com]):

    The Democrats and the media are openly appealing to the military and the intelligence agencies to act against Trump. NBC news Friday stated that US military commanders were “outraged” by Trump’s decisions, while the Washington Post quoted an unnamed “former senior administration official” who stated, “There’s going to be an intervention. Jim Mattis just sent a shot across the bow.” This is the language of military coups.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday January 01 2019, @03:53PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 01 2019, @03:53PM (#780634) Journal

      This is the language of military coups.

      It's also the language of protest. One has to look to real world action to distinguish what is what. If "intervention" means coup, then there you go. If it means instead that more people resign or protest, then it's not a coup.