Mattis' 2017 Message To Troops Is Worth Remembering: 'Just Hold The Line'

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Mattis' 2017 Message To Troops Is Worth Remembering: 'Just Hold The Line'
James Clark

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has resigned from his post — leaving many to freak out about what’s to come in the defense world — but a message he personally delivered last year to troops under his command is worth heeding before he departs in February.

“You just hold the line until our country gets back to understanding and respecting each other, being friendly to one another; what Americans owe to one another,” Mattis said in 2017.

Mattis’ resignation comes on a the heels of a disagreement with President Donald Trump over the latter’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria — the consequences of which are unclear, though there’s speculation that ISIS may not be as “defeated” as the Trump administration claims, and that the U.S. military’s departure from the country will leave our local allies vulnerable and create further instability, out of which some new fresh hell will emerge.

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