General Mattis Departure - Symptomatic or Systemic

[Ret10Echo]

The revolving door of the current administration has another Cabinet position being vacated.

Maybe this one is different... General Mattis is something of a Rock Star when it comes to his credentials as a military commander and seemingly simple, straightforward no-BS approach to things. Aside from warfighter activities, the fact that the DoD conducted it's first EVER financial audit is a very significant accomplishment (yeah..so it failed.. shocker)



The Administrations left-turn on Syria seems to have been the final straw.

Initial story here

There was a comment that popped up somewhere concerning this decision on Syria being an "abandonment of the Kurds". Hate to tell the guy who made that comment that we screwed the Kurds a long time ago....

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by Ret10Echo

There was a comment that popped up somewhere concerning this decision on Syria being an "abandonment of the Kurds". Hate to tell the guy who made that comment that we screwed the Kurds a long time ago....

No joke.

The commentariat will be interesting the next few days. There are plenty on both sides of that coin. Those who never saw a deployment (for someone else's kid) that they didn't like, and those who feel that the well in many respects is dry & the country should take a more insular approach.

[tonyz]

Yes, the revolving door and a bit of a soap opera...but...every morning I wake up and still find reason to smile...











...Hillary Klinton is not my president !

[Penn]

It seems a simple equation. If you pull out, which is a decision, I disagree with Mr. President, I will resign.

Please note this historic moment.

When was the last time a General resign over a policy decision?

Edit to add: Total respect for General Mattis. Completely worried, if this is in fact the case.

[WarriorDiplomat]

It seems both countries have become bottomless endless money pits...Afghanistan has had new generals with new plans that seem to just check the block on their careers at the cost of soldiers doing the actual fighting lives....Syria became a mess under the Obama Sychophantic and the GS golden parachute Centcom crap.....is it time to pull out now that the anti migrant movement in Europe has found the courage to stand up to the migrant charter? now that Obama is gone and can no longer influence the EU by withholding U.S. Monetary support and a strong POTUS who is a nationalist who knows.... Hard to say I think both conflicts became war for profit ventures and the Centcom now led by Votel the sellout and bullshit intelligence that caused the analyst uprising gives me reason to believe that trusting the honesty of the war profiteering machine has cost enough U.S. lives.....we will see I am certain that no one in the Pentagon is getting ground truth anymore than the POTUS......that is what the last 17 yrs has taught me with all the white washing and the false flag exaggerated intelligence that has been produced going into our 3rd POTUS since this started.....I don't trust the intel anymore than I trust the decision to pull out......I am certain that Mattis believes his Generals in CENTCOM I don't.

Note that the Generals leading today to include Mattis did not resign over Obamas forced SJW female and Transgender integration either.....they're all politicos. The Big business of war is a helluva a lot of power and influence the golden parachutes sucking up money from every contract you can think of living off GWOT money and the retired future having a high paying contracting job or start up is awful powerful since the way was shown during the Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict. Not saying that Mattis was looking at that future but most of these bigger contract companies do hire these connected GO's. The Kurds have been getting fooked since the post Ottoman league of nations designated the lands and left the Kurdish homelands out of the decision.

[Joker]

He has been in office for 2-years, it is time for him to go (normal rotation). Suck-ass job,18-hour days, meetings and travel your ass off, no days off, no vacation, and everyone second guesses your decisions. And people ask, “why does he want to leave?”.

Scotty Miller said that we cannot win the war in Afg. I agree that the GPF cannot win it, it isn’t a conventional war.