Posted on 04/23/2016 2:17:41 PM PDT by Hojczyk
"It's been going on for 15 months. Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas," he said. "I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought."
He declined to comment on the current field of candidates, saying that 40 years as a naval officer had ingrained in him an aversion to taking a partisan stance.
Congress, too, has failed, Mattis said. It had neglected to put in place "standby" economic sanctions to inflict if Iran did not keep its end of the nuclear deal, he said, and had not officially authorized use of military force against the Islamic State, which would send a clear message about American resolve in the region. Congress had also failed to increase intelligence funding for use against Iran, Mattis said.
"The bottom line on the American situation is that the next president is going to inherit a mess," he said. "That's the most diplomatic word for it."
Faced with declining influence in the Middle East and persistent hostility from Iran, Mattis said the U.S. must plan for the worst, addressing Iran's cyber and ballistic missile threat as well as its long-term nuclear aspirations. America needs to remain staunch in its policy and maintain strong communication with allies, regarding Iran not as a responsible nation state but as a "revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem," Mattis said.
"Worth more than 10 battleships or five armed divisions is a sense of American political resolve," he said.
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I sounds like the left wants him to be their Perot and thus throw it to Hillary. I hope he says no.
I have heard USMC officer refer to themselves over the years as “Naval Officers” so I was under the impression that was how a Marine officer refers to themselves.
Never gave it a second thought, just thought that was how it was...perhaps there is a freeper who can answer this for us?
that sounds like he would be perfect
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