Posted on 12/26/2018 10:45:54 AM PST by Starman417
Defense Secretaries come and go. Obama had four of them in 8 years who had some unkind things to say about his leadership or lack of it. There was no talk of chaos or of the only adult in the room leaving. Suddenly the media is in meltdown after “Mad Dog” Mattis announced his departure from the Cabinet after President Trump announced our departure from Syria:
Foreign Policy Pentagon reporter Lara Seligman wrote the press corp is contemplating suicide over Mattis’ resignation, “I think I speak for all national security reporters tonight when I say I’m about ready to jump off a cliff. But at least I already wrote the “who will replace Mattis” story two months (only two months?????) ago @ForeignPolicy“Democrats who won’t defend our southern border and who slept as Obama drew red lines in the sand with vanishing ink worry about an ISIS Obama created by a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq regaining strength and reforming in Syria and Iraq. The general Obama fired is suddenly a man of principle whose leadership was indispensable:
House Speaker-designate Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she was “shaken and “concerned”. “General Mattis was a comfort to many who were concerned about the path the Trump Admin would choose to take. His resignation letter is defined by statements of principle — principles that drove him to leave the Administration. All of us should be concerned at this time.”There was no such concern when Obama relieved Mattis as commander of Centcom without so much as a phone call, a factoid typical of Obama’s disdain for the military, its missions, and its heroes:
President Barack Obama fired General James Mattis, the head of Central Command, without even calling the general to let him know he was being replaced.
"I am told that General Mattis was travelling and in a meeting when an aide passed him a note telling him that the Pentagon had announced his replacement as head of Central Command. It was news to him -- he hadn't received a phone call or a heads-up from anyone at the Pentagon or the White House," Thomas E. Ricks reports.Mattis is probably more hawkish than Trump as well. Mattis and Trump disagree on strategy..Obama and Mattis disagreed on goals and consequences. While a liberal uproar greeted the former, utter silence greeted the latter. No doubt our Syrian withdrawal was a factor in Mattis’ decision. I don’t agree with it but to compare it with Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq when he snatched defeat from George W. Bush’s victory as many conservatives are doing is a tad disingenuous.In another post, Ricks says Mattis was fired because:
Pentagon insiders say that he rubbed civilian officials the wrong way -- not because he went all "mad dog," which is his public image, and the view at the White House, but rather because he pushed the civilians so hard on considering the second- and third-order consequences of military action against Iran. Some of those questions apparently were uncomfortable. Like, what do you do with Iran once the nuclear issue is resolved and it remains a foe? What do you do if Iran then develops conventional capabilities that could make it hazardous for U.S. Navy ships to operate in the Persian Gulf? He kept saying, "And then what?"
There is also a belief that Mattis and Obama differed on Iran. "A particular point of disagreement was what to do about mischief Iran is exporting to other countries. Mattis is indeed more hawkish on this than the White House was," writes Ricks in yet another post.
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Barak Hussein Can Do No Wrong.
They were also silent when under the Obama Administration..18 yes 18 kids died in immigration custody..didnt hear a peep about it in the commie press..because they were ALL invested in protecting him..NO negative coverage..that is what you call a Communist media
Well, I for one, would not have much of a problem if every one of those reporters committed suicide. I would feel bad for their families, of course, but all-in-all, I think that if a bunch of reporters decided to commit suicide every time President Trump fired a member of his administration, I think he ought to fire them all!
More liberal hypocrisy added to the (long) list. Thanks for posting. We need to keep at these lying leeches, 24/7.
Preliminary examination of her Twitter timeline indicates that she's a chickenhawk.
Of course they were silent, the Magic Negro could do no wrong............
I already feel bad for the embarrassment to the families of the so-called reporters!
Well, I DID hear a female reporter on NBC yesterday say that “possibly hundreds” of children have died in ICE custody in recent months.
Could be THOUSANDS for all she knows.
First time I heard about Mattis being dumped by Obama without a phone call.
However, Mattis was over 62 years of age when Obama fired him.
As I recall, the President needs to get Senate approval to retain a general after age 62, so, there may be more - or less - to this story than the author implies.
Barak Hussein Can Do No Wrong.
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Of course not. He was a light-worker, a “god of all things” who could stop the oceans’ rise and Nobel Peace Prize winner, whereas ORANGE MAN BAD!!
And are we to believe that none have died in the trek to northern Mexico? Would the media tell us if they have?
Under Obama, no one said a damn thing that could have been harmful to the Kenyan sack of sh*t..everything was done to protect him..under Trump since they all hate his guts, they will report if he picks his nose
The last war we won WWII..
The military is a real political at the higher levels..
Of course they were.
98% of military promotions above 0-4 are political.
Defense Secretaries come and go. Obama had four of them in 8 years who had some unkind things to say about his leadership or lack of it. There was no talk of chaos or of the only adult in the room leaving. Suddenly the media is in meltdown...
The press was silent on lots of Obama choices...
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