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James Mattis: Joe Biden Must Eliminate ‘America First’ from U.S. Foreign Policy
 
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Joel B. Pollak23 Nov 20207,342
 

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.

In October 2018, then-Secretary Mattis gave a speech in which he said that “when we talk about America first, it’s not America alone.”

In his new article, however, Mattis says the opposite, calling for the “end of America First”:

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/11/23/james-mattis-joe-biden-must-eliminate-america-first-from-u-s-foreign-policy/