June 5, 2020
The embarrassing nonsense of General Mattis
By Tom Riley
Despite protestations of principle from former Secretary of Defense James Mattis – “Chaos,†“Mad Dog,†and “Warrior Monk†-- you knew it was coming. Mattis resigned in February of 2019 over a policy dispute with President Trump, who was determined to end U.S. involvement in Syria’s endless civil war. At the time, Mattis piously intoned that he would not be criticizing a sitting president. He maintained that stance for over a year -- perhaps a deep state record in the Age of Trump Derangement.
When Mattis’s ritual denunciation of the sitting president finally came, it appeared in the reliably left-wing Atlantic -- the clearest signal of all as to where Mattis’s sympathies had always resided. The stunning thing about it was what a ridiculous potpourri of clichés it presented.
Three points need to be addressed -- and not according to Mattis’s own order of treatment, which is a little shaky, anyhow.
First, Mattis excoriates Trump for failing to unify Americans. Is he serious? Even before Trump took office, the Resistance to his presidency was being organized. It included many government officials and even many who intended to stay on as spies in the Trump White House. Trump’s inauguration was besieged by mobs of leftists in bleep hats, including womenfolk attached to FBI Director James Comey. A spurious probe into Russian interference was already underway, and would shortly be formalized with the demented figurehead Robert Mueller as its official representative. General Mike Flynn would shortly be forced out of office and prosecuted. The salacious Steele dossier would be promoted as a source of truths. Later on, one of Trump’s supremely qualified Supreme Court nominees would be targeted with absurd allegations of high school sexual aggression.
And that’s not even half of it. Can anyone really claim that Trump is the one sowing disunity?
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