War is a racket.
Remember Milo Minderbinder from Catch-22?
There’s money to be made and lots of it.
YOU NAILED IT!
Mattis should have been prosecuted for his very active role in what the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) characterized as: "one of the largest business scandals of the past decades ... an “elaborate, years-long fraud.”
In short, Mattis was on the Board of Directors of a venture-backed company called Theranos, and helped them claim--FRAUDULENTLY--that their technology for blood testing was being used on the battlefields of Afghanistan.
Other MAJOR LEAGUE CRIMINALS involved--but none so intimately as Mattis--included George Schultz, Henry Kissinger and ... wait for it ... Hillary Rotten Clinton.
Thanks, Califreak. From now on I will only think of the former General as:
Article at: https://www.vox.com/2018/3/16/17124288/mattis-theranos-board-trump