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2020-11-25 Home Front: Politix

James Mattis: Joe Biden Must Eliminate ‘America First' from U.S. Foreign Policy

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Posted by 746 2020-11-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 The United States today is undermining the foundations of an international order manifestly advantageous to U.S. interests

No, America First undermines the international order advantageous to America's elite. It undermines the elites to act as the global middleman, to insert themselves to arbitrate global differences in wages and pocket the difference while destroying American industry, productivity, middle and working classes and social cohesion.

What happened to your oath? I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Posted by Ulavirong Omeager2818 2020-11-25 00:16|| 2020-11-25 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 You fools raised up a pathetic, piss-poor 3rd World country to co-equal status with the United States and made us dependent on that mortal rival for our most vital biomedical supplies.

You imbeciles deliberately invited over 20 million illiterate peasants to enter our country illegally, cratering our low end labor market, ruining our schools, overwhelming our health care system, jeopardizing public safety and undermining rule of law across this country.

You craven weasels stood by while deranged mau-maus turned our history and logic and decency on its head, kowtowing before these little shakedown artists' pathetic extortion efforts and trashing what's left of public school integrity or competence.

You morons bashed our ally Israel and built up our enemy Iran. You fools gave Iran the keys to the kingdom and called that wisdom.

Unbelievably, you insist we continue andther 20 years of endless war 10,000 miles away from our borders, which you refuse to defend or even recognize as valid.

And you are now telling us you'll invade our homes and arrest us for noncompliance with your idiotic, completely ineffectual lockdown diktat -- because it worked so wondrously the first time around.

FUCK OFF.
You're the worst and stupidest political elite this country has ever seen.

Posted by Jeamble Thusoling1947 2020-11-25 00:47|| 2020-11-25 00:47|| Front Page Top

/\ You craven weasels stood by while deranged mau-maus turned our history and logic and decency on its head

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."
~ Mark Twain

Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-25 05:20|| 2020-11-25 05:20|| Front Page Top

#4 "History would be a wonderful thing if it were but only true." -Tolstoy

Posted by Clem 2020-11-25 07:16|| 2020-11-25 07:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Senility is a terrible thing....

Posted by Mercutio 2020-11-25 08:30|| 2020-11-25 08:30|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ Not so bad actually, it's the blurred vision and frequent nodding off that bothers me most.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-25 09:14|| 2020-11-25 09:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Military court Marshal followed by 10 years hard labor in Taiwan, then deliver his remains to the Chinese Embassy for his hero's welcome ceremony held by Xi.

Posted by Angeater Omick2705 2020-11-25 09:44|| 2020-11-25 09:44|| Front Page Top

#8 I can't help feeling that in a basement somewhere, under the stairs, there is an alien pod that looks just like James Mattis.

Posted by SteveS 2020-11-25 09:56|| 2020-11-25 09:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Now the moonbat Demonrats are talking about recycling that completely corrupted and venal old hag as Secretary of Defense. Do they want to continue endless wars across the world?

Very good rant #2.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-11-25 10:05|| 2020-11-25 10:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Cut off their supply. Tell your family and friends to boycott the recruiters. No legit reason to die for the 'world order'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-11-25 10:30|| 2020-11-25 10:30|| Front Page Top

#11 I think Mattis should look over any oaths he took on his way up the chain because America First should be his mindset, not something to avoid.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-11-25 11:20|| 2020-11-25 11:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Ex-generals don't get to make policy. That's for elected officials and generals are not elected.

We liked Mattis at first because he's a tough talking, no-nonsense military man who knows how to win wars.

But it's not his place to decide which wars should be fought and which ones shouldn't.

While we honor his service to our country, it's time for Mattis, like MacAurthur, to fade away.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-11-25 11:59|| 2020-11-25 11:59|| Front Page Top

#13 Do they want to continue endless wars across the world?

The obvious answer to that question is yes. I mean, just look at the wars we've fought over the past several decades. Ever since Vietnam, our country has been embroiled in Third World countries where our national security is not even remotely threatened. Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Somalia and all kinds of chickenshit, squalid little affairs in places that most Americans couldn't even find on a map. These engagements tend to drag on for years and, in the case of Afghanistan, for decades with no apparent end in sight and victory is not even defined.

Obama preferred the chickenshit little wars like Libya, Syria and Ukraine in which he never really risks many casualties because he was afraid to implement strategies that would result in concrete victories. For him, the biggest risk was not being able to explain what happened in Benghazi and even then he managed to obfuscate, lie and gloss it over without much scrutiny from his allies in the mainstream media. I think that for him and many in the Deep State, it's not about victory. It's all about testing new weapons and keeping defense contractors busy so they can enjoy the kickbacks.

I predict here and now that Biden will get us into another war. But, like Procopius2k, I would advise anyone who might be tempted not to participate. I'm sick and tired of seeing young men and women come home from these ill-advised adventures with arms and/or legs blown off and all messed up in the head. And for what? It isn't patriotic to go to other countries and kill people while they try to kill you if they never threatened our country in the first place. Leave those people alone and then maybe they'll leave us alone. Besides that, how can you defend freedom and democracy when we can't even have free and fair elections ourselves?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-11-25 12:25|| 2020-11-25 12:25|| Front Page Top

#14 Thanks for your service and Semper Fi. Now sit down and rest before you tarnish your legacy further.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-11-25 12:40|| 2020-11-25 12:40|| Front Page Top

#15 ^Focus on Theranos business, general.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-11-25 13:22|| 2020-11-25 13:22|| Front Page Top

#16 Maybe we should make it a rule that any country in which American troops are present for more than 20 years qualifies for statehood.

Posted by Matt 2020-11-25 14:44|| 2020-11-25 14:44|| Front Page Top

#17 Trump should recall him to active duty, bust him to E-1 and order him to guard the front gate of White House OUTSIDE the fence where Pantifa/BLM can happily throw stuff at him every day. Then 1 day before Jan 20th, kick him out.

After announcing your own treason against America, your past doesn't matter, THAT is your legacy.

Posted by Silentbrick 2020-11-25 23:33|| 2020-11-25 23:33|| Front Page Top

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