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An Open Letter to General Mattis
US Defense Watch ^ | April 26, 2017 | Ray Starmann

Posted on 04/26/2017 8:23:55 PM PDT by pboyington

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1 posted on 04/26/2017 8:23:55 PM PDT by pboyington
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To: pboyington

Thank you. I agree.


2 posted on 04/26/2017 8:25:44 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: pboyington

bfl


3 posted on 04/26/2017 8:34:25 PM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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-—...this vicious third rail in the US military; the social engineering and political correctness that is eating the military alive like a mutating tropical virus.-—

Well put and 100% true.

I never thought this letter needed to be written, as it seemed (in the beginning at least) that the good General was referred to as ‘Mad Dog’ for a reason.

I am now not so sanguine about our ability to rise to the challenges emerging around the world.


4 posted on 04/26/2017 8:35:07 PM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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Mattis, like Gen. McMaster, for all the seemingly tough talk, can’t quite bring himself to say ‘Islamic terrorism’. Instead, they blame generic ‘perversion of religion’.

Low-level permanent war against foot soldiers is their thing; bloodying Islam into halting jihad in the West for a few generations is not something they comprehend.


5 posted on 04/26/2017 8:48:57 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Paulie

I thought Mattis was our answer. I have a lot of doubts now.


6 posted on 04/26/2017 8:52:52 PM PDT by pboyington
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To: pboyington

Pretty much my thoughts back in the mid 80’s. I think most of us aren’t shocked, we saw it coming, even more so after 89’ when we thought who needs all those men and bases, after the wall came down. Once Clintoon got into the pix, the pieces started to fall apart even more. Its a nasty world out there, its only going to get worse. Best prepare now before there is no time.


7 posted on 04/26/2017 8:53:58 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Again it disapeared? Damn cursor is in cahoots with the tag line.)
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To: originalbuckeye

Ray Starmann is right, again. Thank you for posting this.


8 posted on 04/26/2017 9:05:04 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: Always A Marine

Yes, Starmann is right, BUT he undercut his credibility a little with the last 8 years or so of hyperbole criticising the military for not conducting a coup.

He’s right on this time, though.


9 posted on 04/26/2017 9:20:32 PM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: pboyington

bump


10 posted on 04/26/2017 9:50:27 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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“Mattis, like Gen. McMaster, for all the seemingly tough talk, can’t quite bring himself to say ‘Islamic terrorism’. Instead, they blame generic ‘perversion of religion’.”

Because they both have close personal and professional relationships with the King of Jordan and the President of Egypt, both Muslims, who have put themselves at risk and done a lot of hard fighting with us against what they themselves call “Political Islam”.

And while you may think they should gratuitously insult the religion of these two allies, the two generals have better sense than you do.


11 posted on 04/26/2017 9:56:35 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: Pelham

Maddog strikes hard, fast, decisively, unexpectedly and catastrophically on our enemies. That’s all I need to know.


12 posted on 04/26/2017 10:17:11 PM PDT by txhurl (BOOM BOOM! - what is it - :)
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Yup.

I think what many people miss is that generals at this level have many dealings with foreign leaders. Personal relationships go a very long way in bolstering our alliances. They can’t go around saying the things that we routinely do on American political boards.


13 posted on 04/26/2017 10:22:46 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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I hope General Mattis is listening and takes this to heart. I also hope obama and anyone who helped him do this to our military burns in hell for eternity on this alone. This is just too sick and twisted to believe yet there it is in black and white.


14 posted on 04/26/2017 10:46:23 PM PDT by Boomer (The MSM and Radicalized Dem Party are One and the SAME!)
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Just pure common sense but the Marxists have to destroy the concept of male and female and make them interchangeable for their radical egalitarianism of total irrationality for their “utopia” where Slavery is Freedom, Vice is Virtue and Up is Down.

They have to destroy concepts in little children—that there is a difference in males and females and they are doing it with their Marxist irrational “gender theory” that they warp little children’s minds with like that evil Bill Nye—the non-science guy.

They need to destroy reason and logic and all biological connections for their NWO of total slavery. They need mothers removed from raising their own babies, children so the children can be totally warped and irrational and devoid of Common Sense-—(all logic GONE) so that they will be happy “slaves” for the elite sodomites who want paganism-—hedonism and orgies with the little boys like in Ancient Greece and like in Afghanistan today. They have to emasculate males to the nth degree and humiliate them and lessen Excellence and destroy competition among males-—and pit man against woman.

They need the Christian worldview erased in the masses—the ONLY theology which put woman on a pedestal. They need to destroy respect for women in males and visa versa. They need to destroy the concept in males of dying for their women and children-—they want them to be homosexualized like the German male—where they are so narcissistic and puerile, they could care less if muslim come in and rape their women, girls and little boys.

Destroying the male/female Christian paradigm will destroy culture—totally.


15 posted on 04/26/2017 10:46:26 PM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: pboyington

Excellent read


16 posted on 04/26/2017 11:41:21 PM PDT by easternsky
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Couldn’t have said it better.

I had high hopes for Gen. Mattis, from what I knew of him. I still believe he will work to make our military more combat and operationally ready than it has been, by upgrading equipment and changing ROE restrictions.

That said, I fear it is like renovating a house on a crumbling foundation.

Allowing open and accepted homosexuality in the military is a crime.

Allowing women on ships, submarines, and combat billets is just as bad. I hoped that he was playing a political game when he went through his confirmation, and that he said what he needed to say to get confirmed.

But I have come to believe he doesn’t see it the same way I do, and the social engineering/jobs program mentality of the current military is not going to be changed.


17 posted on 04/27/2017 4:34:32 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: pboyington
to destroy our enemies on sea, land and in the air as violently and as swiftly as possible.

That is the sole purpose of the military. It is not a day care center, a lactation station, a LGBT rights forum, a check your white privilege foundation, a transgender club; nor is it an organization whose sole purpose is to shame male soldiers into wearing red high heels and pregnancy simulators, while fudging standards to graduate a trio of well-fed women from Ranger School, including one 37 year old mommy.

Perhaps you should investigate sir, how these women looked like they added their ‘Freshman 15’ at Ranger School, and were in dire need of an emergency phone call to order Marie Osmond’s Nutrisystem. Perhaps you should compare them to six decades of male grads who crawled out Benning looking like Holocaust survivors.

and there it is...

18 posted on 04/27/2017 4:42:10 AM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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Ray Starmann, I F’n salute you Sir!!!


19 posted on 04/27/2017 5:16:18 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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It did take nearly 8 years to nearly break our forces. Extracting the perfumed princes in the era of Chelsea Manning is gonna take a little time.


20 posted on 04/27/2017 8:22:54 AM PDT by txhurl (BOOM BOOM! - what is it - :)
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