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| 2018-12-27 |
| [American Spectator] And now the Left media are consumed by Canine Spongiform Encephalopathy ‐ Mad Dog Disease. It seems that everyone at CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the CBS-NBC-ABC cabal all madly love outgoing Defense Secretary James "Mad Dog" Mattis. The SPCA has come to D.C. It is fascinating that these liberals, who always denigrate the military and prefer to manipulate the armed forces into serving as their laboratory for transgender social experiments (Yes, Zer!), suddenly are singing paeans to Gen. Mattis. It is ridiculous. They have no shame. They adore a great patriotic general? Gimme a break. Six months ago, Secretary Mattis was being grilled on why we had not yet left Afghanistan. They want to close down ICE. Not the border ‐ that may remain wide open ‐ but they want to close down ICE because Immigration and Customs Enforcement is run by "Nazis." They express empathy and sympatico for extremist elements like "Black Lives Matter" when the BLM crowd oppose the police and march in streets calling for police deaths. All manifestations of defending our safety and security, at home and abroad, are evil for them. All first responders are pounded with contumely. Even Gen. David Petraeus would get heckled when he set foot on a campus to lecture. But, now that President Trump has accepted Secretary Mattis’s resignation, oh how those Leftists love their Mad Dog! Listen to Don Lemon and Chris Matthews and Chris Cuomo as they pathetically yelp: Woof, woof! How every American liberal salivates Pavlovian merely upon hearing those sweet two syllables: Mad Dog! Baloney. Or, as they say in the Land of Canine: Grrrrrrrrr! If Trump Derangement Syndrome has evolved into a full-fledged malady impacting half the American population, it now seems to have spawned a new ailment: Mad Dog Disease. The basic symptoms are the inexplicable sorrow being expressed by anti-war activists, flower-bearing peaceniks, who incomprehensibly cannot sleep, eat, or otherwise function now that James "Mad Dog" Mattis no longer is our Secretary of Defense. They can’t handle it: Who will protect us, if not our sweet beloved Mad Dog? It is a thing. For those who have learned American subjects in school beside Identity Studies, the United States in fact is led by a civilian commander-in-chief whom the public elects. It is presumed that the President is too busy to do everything by himself, so he appoints aides, advisors, and surrounds himself with a cabinet. But in the end, they all serve at the pleasure of the President whom the people elected. That is how it should be. No one elected James Mattis to be in charge of America’s defense strategy. For that matter, no one elected Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, Morning Joe & Mika, Al Sharpton, or anyone else to that role ‐ and none of them has television ratings to suggest that they reflect the views of more than a pittance among the population, most of whom get stuck watching CNN while at the airport awaiting their delayed flight or while standing at the dry cleaner. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 ^ This |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-12-27 21:13 |
| #6 I like Mattis but there is a reason we have civilians dictating policy and the military implementing policy. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2018-12-27 21:11 |
| #5 I will back Trump, not because he is a fine man, but because he is an effective necessary Leader and the Left DIS likes him intensely. I regard General Matthis as a fine soldier and an upright courageous man. I regret Trump needs Yes men ( but under his present harassment it seems necessary ) and Matthis isn''t one of those even on Kiss my Butt day. Matthis is what I wish Trump were, but he isn't. Schumer is my choice for Kiss my Butt day. And Nancy Pelosi is a dried up Cow. No milk even on a good day. General Matthis still HAS all his talents. He always will. Men like Matthis will always BE truly Matthis. Trump will be gone someday. But until Trump is gone, General Matthis is still good for future backup. We may need General Matthis again someday. He isn't going to go away, he's too valuable. And he stands out to other men who know what a Man should be. Men like Matthis don't back down. They are actually real, and they are what I would call "righteous men." |
| Posted by: Kofi Elmusort7578 2018-12-27 10:10 |
| #4 Yes, always remember, "the cult of personality" is a bad thing. Except when it isn't... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-12-27 07:55 |
| #3 Mattis? He was that dude that Obama fired, right? Why indeed he was! It is worth nothing that the quote in #2 is actually from an article titled The Obama administration’s inexplicable mishandling of Marine Gen. James Mattis BY THOMAS E. RICKS | JANUARY 18, 2013 The Reading Tea Leaves for Christmas link manages to obscure this fact by conflating two separate events. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-12-27 05:18 |
| #2 Reading Tea Leaves for Christmas "Thomas Ricks says Mattis was fired because: 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?”" |
| Posted by: newc 2018-12-27 01:00 |