Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James Mattis for secretary of defense

The Washington Post ^ | December 1, 2016 | Dan Lamothe

[conservativepoet]

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis to be secretary of defense, nominating a former senior military officer who led operations across the Middle East to run the Pentagon less than four years after he hung up his uniform, according to people familiar with the decision.

[WildHighlander57]

Windflier wrote:

““General Patton believed in reincarnation. You don’t imagine that just maybe....”

This’ll twist yer noodle. Trump was born the day after Patton died.
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Woah...

[COBOL2Java]

The law in question was enacted in 1962.

Good! There's precedence then.

[steve86]

Oh my God! Jim’s my neighbor!

[austinaero]

Right now we have Ash Carter..but soon we will have
MADDOG!!!

[ought-six]

Yes, Gregory Peck played the role.

MacArthur had an ego the size of Gibraltar. He was a shameless self-promoter. And he was NOT a team player, though he was a very good administrator, which may sound contradictory. As a military strategist, though, he was average. Halsey was far superior in that regard.

[manc]

Merry Christmas to you too.

[wardaddy]

Effin A!

[wardaddy]

Like picking Pershing

[wardaddy]

Who cares

A has been

Ahab

[VMI70]

I have a feeling with this guy the social engineering mess will get cleaned up in short order.

Women off ships and out of combat to start

...and then the dismantling of DACOWITS (Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services)

[MNDude]

Why is this a good choice?

[Fast Moving Angel]

Somewhere, George Patton is smiling.

[laplata]

Trump was born in 1946, Patton died just before Christmas, 1945.

[laplata]

You are exactly right.

[lgjhn23]

“..and he will go down in history as the single worst president in US history...”
I was thinking more on the lines of him being just a nasty little “fudge stain” on Lady Liberty’s under-draws. Not even a real POTUS.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

From everything I’ve read about him, Matrix is in the mold of the all-time great military leaders.

[laplata]

Thank you.

[laplata]

The best part is how Obama is already beginning to fade and is being treated like the buffoon that’s always was by both the international community and industry leaders.
All those years that Obama refused to work with and negotiate his legislation with the Republicans will now destroy his legacy. Since he went around the constitution and ruled by executive decree, all his efforts are now dust in the wind and he will go down in history as the single worst president in US history followed by a golden age of Trump.

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You’re right.

Obama’s legacy will be the same as used toilet paper being flushed.

[Boardwalk]

Solid!

[AppyPappy]

That’s what I would do.