Well, they sound like a bunch of women already, specifically, women who teach 3rd grade and speak in hushed tones with their eyebrows raised.
Mattis opened with a slide show punctuated by lots of dollar signs.
What a jack ass.
For the next 90 minutes, Mattis, Tillerson, and Cohn took turns trying to emphasize their points, pointing to their charts and diagrams.
Yeah, that's great idea. Lecture the new president for an hour and a half on how he needs to let you continue to set the agenda for the ENDLESS STALEMATE that keeps you in those cushy jobs.
Mattis wasn’t trying to convince the president of anything, only to explain and provide facts.
Oh, please. Trying to explain "you need to listen to us," because the facts are "you need to listen to us."
Dunford tried to come to Nicholson’s defense, but the mild-mannered general--
Oh, great, we have "mild-mannered" generals. Guiding our military.
“I want to win,” he said. “We don’t win any wars anymore . . . We spend $7 trillion, everybody else got the oil and we’re not winning anymore.”
Hundred percent correct. Clearly these generals don't want to "win," they want to keep the status quo that is steadily draining this country of money and blood. They LIKE it this way.
Oh, the language of this pot-boiler. "This most sacred place..." oh yes, the pictures on the wall and the "gleaming" wooden tables... this is a sacred place. Gotcha.
“How does the commander in chief say that?” one thought. “What would our worst adversaries think if they knew he said this?”
They'd think, "He's right, and you paper-shuffling, eye-averting, pansy-a** b****es are no better." Oh, the language. They were STUNNED, they were SPEECHLESS, they were FROZEN!
Others at the table noticed Trump’s stream of venom had taken an emotional toll. So many people in that room had gone to war and risked their lives for their country, and now they were being dressed down by a president who had not. They felt sick to their stomachs. Tillerson told others he thought he saw a woman in the room silently crying.
My God, THIS is our military? This emotional bunch of prissy, hushed-voice scolds with their little power-point presentations on "why we are always right?"
“We were starting to get out on the wrong path, and we really needed to have a course correction and needed to educate, to teach, to help him understand the reason and basis for a lot of these things,” said one senior official involved in the planning. “We needed to change how he thinks about this, to course correct.
Translation: We like things just the way they are. Bleeding money. Bleeding troops. Bleeding more money. Yeah, we like this.
Dunford tried to explain to the president once again, gently, that troops deployed in these regions provided stability there, which helped make America safer.
Gently, he explained that we are the world police, except we do it for free because we are stupid.
Another officer chimed in that charging other countries for U.S. soldiers would be against the law.
Uh... what law? Is that an "international law?" Do you know a four letter word that starts with the letter after E?
By then, however, Trump had become a president entirely unrestrained. He had replaced his raft of seasoned advisers with a cast of enablers who executed his orders and engaged his obsessions. They saw their mission as telling the president yes.
Good. One part of the swamp drained. Hope you're sad, Carol & Philip. Hope you're taking lots of anti-depressants and crying to your therapist about it.
Mattis opened with a slide show punctuated by lots of dollar signs.
What a jack ass.
Seems par for the course with Mattis. It was reported the anonymous author who sought to damage POTUS was Mattis’s speech writer. No denials were given when he was outed.
Given the disrespect shown to the Constitution in the Age of Trump by the military brass I won’t be worrying the next time a Democrat POTUS eviscerates the military budget. They’ve earned it.