[Always A Marine]

Being a good warfighting general is an apolitical task, but setting policy as a civilian department head is altogether different. Jim Mattis was a fine combat leader, and we should leave it at that.

[laplata]

I agree.

[Hawthorn]

>> Being a good warfighting general is an apolitical task, but setting policy as a civilian department head is altogether different <<

Maybe that’s why Congress, in its collective wisdom, passed a law to forbid a retired general from becoming SecDef.

(The ban is in place until seven years have elapsed since the general’s retirement).