November 24, 2020
So now Jim Mattis is against 'America first'?
By Monica Showalter
Now that Joe Biden is the presumed next president, former defense secretary Jim Mattis has made a U-turn on his purported support for President Trump's signature call to put America first.
According to Breitbart News's Joel Pollak:
Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis declared in an article in Foreign Affairs on Monday that the “America First†foreign policy had damaged national security, and called on Joe Biden to “eliminate ‘America first'†from U.S. strategy.
Mattis resigned in December 2018, citing policy disagreements with the president, who had just ordered a troop drawdown in Syria. In his resignation letter, Mattis said that the U.S. needed to do more to show “respect†to American allies.
That's shocking. Does Mattis know how bad that sounds? If the former secretary of defense is not 100% in favor of putting 'America first,' then who exactly is first? This isn't some Silicon Valley lateralistic power-structure gnome or Antifa creature talking collective leadership. Anyone in the ultra-hierarchical U.S. military would absolutely know that human beings will always choose a leader, a special person to serve as 'first.' Mattis certainly would. Mattis achieved high rank in the military on precisely this logic himself.
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