What we may be seeing here is, though someone may be a great general, that person may be naive as to politics and the damage those with significant ideological views can have on a government department. That appears to be a significant weakness of Mattis’.
What we may be seeing here is, though someone may be a great general, that person may be naive as to politics and the damage those with significant ideological views can have on a government department. That appears to be a significant weakness of Mattis’.
Nobody naive about politics gets 4 stars in the military.
It is way, way beyond naivete or weakness. It is consciously done on Mattis’ part. He is not stupid.
“What we may be seeing here is, though someone may be a great general, that person may be naive as to politics and the damage those with significant ideological views can have on a government department.”
I think that’s exactly what is going on with Mattis.