Beat ISIS back? Really?
Let's say he took out a lot of them, and many of them moved to other theaters to continue their bullsh*t.
If you think ISIS is defeated, you are not paying attention. Why, when Bush left office, they were well established in six provinces in Afghanistan. I am sure they have become stronger. And of course, they are in many countries as we speak, and like al Qaeda, they are very much a future threat to western civilization.
Until the west develops a total vanquish policy for any country harboring these radical muslims groups, they will continue to pop up like whack-a-mole.
I know it will not be appreciated, but what the USA needs are military folks that had Patton's mindset of total annihilation of the enemy. He used to say the only good German was a dead one.
Admiral Halsey in a speech said, 'the only good Jap, is a Jap that has been dead for six months or more. In a country like Japan, where the civilian population supports the military as they do, the only good Jap civilian is a Jap civilian dead for six months or more'. Said this in a speech in 1943 in San Francisco, CA.
Fact is, until we develop that vanquishing mindset for radical islam and ALL who harbor them, they will continue to kill us in the civilized world, hellbent to destroy western civilization.
I say Mattis was too tea and crumpets for my liking.