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| 'We don't scare,' U.S. defense secretary James Mattis sez after London attack |
| 2017-06-10 |
| [Reuters] U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday the United States and its allies would continue to fight against Islamist extremists and would not be scared by attacks against the West by the Islamic State group. British Prime Minister Theresa May has said Britain must be tougher in stamping out Islamist extremism after attackers killed at least seven people by ramming a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbing revelers in nearby bars. Islamic State, which is losing territory in Syria and Iraq to an offensive backed by a U.S.-led coalition, said its militants were responsible for the attack, the group's media agency Amaq said in a statement monitored in Cairo. One French national and one Canadian were among those killed. At least 48 people were wounded in the attack, including at least one Australian. "We are united, as I said, in our resolve, even against an enemy that thinks by hurting us they can scare us," Mattis said, appearing in Sydney alongside U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for the first time outside the United States. "Well, we don't scare," Mattis said. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 Pencil guy. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-06-10 21:50 |
| #9 Wonder if Comey knows his way around a handgun. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2017-06-10 19:39 |
| #8 Dad served under Chesty in Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and though not under his command, on Peleliu. Dad had a lot of admiration for Chesty. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2017-06-10 19:24 |
| #7 Chesty Puller - Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller (June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971) was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general who fought guerrillas in Haiti and Nicaragua, and fought in World War II and the Korean War. Puller is the most decorated Marine in American history. He is one of two U.S. servicemen to be awarded five Navy Crosses and, with the Distinguished Service Cross awarded to him by the U.S. Army, his total of six stands only behind Eddie Rickenbacker's eight times receiving the nation's second-highest military award for valor. |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2017-06-10 13:49 |
| #6 Omar comin'! |
| Posted by: 2sealys 2017-06-10 08:15 |
| #5 What's the Chesty Puller version? We know where you live. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-06-10 07:55 |
| #4 "We don't scare." Most likely, the version suitable for publication. What's the Chesty Puller version? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-06-10 07:53 |
| #3 I'd rather hear "we're doing something constructive", but than I don't put much store in this particular american general. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-06-10 05:43 |
| #2 Yeah, well he's still a globalist who thinks we need to pick up the tab for the ungrateful Europeans. America first. |
| Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 2017-06-10 05:01 |
| #1 Rule number 1. SECDEF is not maddog. His call sign is Appropriately CHAOS. Rule number two, He does not sleep. Rule number three, Chuck Norris has nothing on him. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-06-10 04:25 |