Everybody Loves ‘Mad Dog’: Mattis Pick Reassures Allies
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on December 05, 2016 at 4:00 AM
Marine Corps photo
Then-Lt. Gen. James Mattis in Iraq.
SIMI VALLEY, CALIF.: You might not think a man nicknamed “Mad Dog” would put America’s allies at ease. But that’s the buzz here at the Reagan Library’s annual defense conference, where Donald Trump‘s choice of Gen. James Mattis to run the Pentagon met with enthusiastic praise from the right, from the left, and from overseas.
It looks like the retired four-star’s motto for his Marines in Iraq — “No better friend, no worse enemy” — is true of the man himself. Our allies may be at best nonplussed by Trump, but they know what to make of Mattis because they’ve worked and fought alongside him.
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