Trump's Syrian move in 3DDonSurber.com, Dec 29, 2018, Don Surber
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"Mattis did not understand, or did not want to understand, he was a political appointee, and that meant executing the policy of the elected officials. He never discerned that Trump is clearing the decks before the looming contest with China, ridding the U.S. of legacy conflicts like Syria where we won’t win, and Afghanistan where we’ve already lost," Durso wrote in a column in The Hill.
Durso gave many examples of Mattis slow-rolling the president rather than carrying out his orders.
"Mattis spent much of his time telling whoever would listen that he was at the Pentagon to protect it from the Commander-in-Chief, which is pedestrian Washington, D.C. image management, at odds with the selfless, soldier-scholar image he cultivated. Mattis the man is not the Mattis of myth," Durso wrote.
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But it was the last line that was the illumination: "He never discerned that Trump is clearing the decks before the looming contest with China, ridding the U.S. of legacy conflicts like Syria where we won’t win, and Afghanistan where we’ve already lost."
A closed society, Red China is open about one thing. It wants to depose the United States as the top dog in the world. Red China has given its target date: January 1, 2025.
That just happens to fall 19 days before President Trump completes his second term. If you think Donald Trump is going to leave that nightmare to his successor, you are a fool.
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