2007 was about the time Mattis threw the Haditha Marines under the bus.
Mattis is a politician first.
Mattis the Warrior Monk, wasn’t as smart as people made him to be. Look at his career, what is he known for? Talk. Sensationalism.
The Haditha and this Blackwater incident can be distilled down to ONE sentence:
In counterinsurgency operations, it is THE PEOPLE that must kill the insurgency, and it must be done with urgency.
That friends, is the failure of Mattis and everyone else not named Odierno.