Posted on 12/25/2018 4:10:25 PM PST by conservative98
Since Washington crossed the Delaware at Christmas in 1776, American troops have missed holidays at home to defend our experiment in democracy, Mattis said in a 20-second video.
To all you lads and lasses holding the line in 2018, on land, at sea, or in the air, thanks for keeping the faith. Merry Christmas and may God hold you safe, Mattis concluded.
The video was recorded Dec. 19, one day before Mattis submitted his scathing resignation letter
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
We were all spared from a Kofi Annan style farewell tour of his command all over the World, and the media lapping it all up.
He forgot to mention fags and trannies.
Didn’t surprise me. The fact he didnt get rid of the ass munchers, even when Trump told him to..
“Merry Christmas and may God hold you safe, Mattis concluded.”
He forgot to say “and I would keep you in harms way in Syria if it were uo to me”.
Yet another corrupted by LIB lunacy. Bye bye.
“To all you lads and lasses holding the line in 2018, on land, at sea, or in the air, thanks for keeping the faith.”
And trannies and homos...
He looks way too happy. Look at that smile. Sicko.
He was also on the board of directors at the scam company Theranos. You know, because of all his laboratory medicine experience.
Hopefully he will exit the stage and just GO HOME.
What a sad case of vanity personified look at me, look at me and my multiple parting shots during my last months oops, days I mean in office.
Go away Mattis.
I bet they are saddened by his departure.
Uses General Washington in his message who warned us about foreign entanglements.
Two SF Teams or SF Spec OPS teams jumped into AFGHAN with CIA types on the ground ( Also prior SF) on the ground north was the Northern Alliance and another further south with Karzai’s men. These men took Afghan in a matter of days. The Marines f’d things up. You cannot send regular infantry troops or marines in on UW situations.
Bullsquirt. The SF northern alliance deal did what it did. But after that, they could do little else. The Marines certainly did not F things up.
As for UW, that has never worked anywhere. UW is what F-ed things up. Infantry and Marines have a long history of success that Spec ops is utterly unable to match, despite today’s hit movies.
All Sf could give us was a country where Karzai stole hundreds of millions of dollars and left them ready for a Taliban return. It wasnt grunts that created that situation... it was COIN and the COIN UW mentality.
Washington wasn’t referring to his foreign military allies when making the statement about foreign entanglements. It was more complicated than that and involved morality. For example, although there was a time for a French alliance with mutual support for military defense, he disapproved of one French ambassador organizing American demonstrations for supporting France (foreign emissary meddling in U.S. politics).
The main problem with trying to establish an absolute against allies for warfare with Washington’s arguments, is that it wouldn’t have allowed us to do what we did in each of two world wars. Without preparation in advance with a large military force, allies, entrance and victory in those wars, we would have been invaded, occupied and enslaved.
The guy that has to work Holidays at the NY Post is a NeverTrumper. He pumped out 8 NeverTrump pieces on Christmas Eve and Christmas.
https://nypost.com/author/bob-fredericks/
one world chump.
I’m sorry, but I listened when previous Secretaries of Defense spoke, I have yet to be interested in what Mattis says.
And I can’t identify exactly why.
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