I’m the one around here who actually doesn’t want Petraeus or Mattis. Both are anti-Israel and both favor the 2 state solution.
Petraeus couldn’t keep it in his pants and gave classified into to a reporter who got it by bedding him.
Mattis kowtowed to politicians and threw Chessani and the Haditha Marines under the bus to get his 4th star. In that effort, he was found guilty of unlawful command influence.
“I’m the one around here who actually doesn’t want Petraeus or Mattis. Both are anti-Israel and both favor the 2 state solution.”
Mattis - I don’t know much about what happened with Chessani & the Haditha Marines...I’ll have to take your word for it.
Regarding Mattis as head of DoD - I think that he is exactly the right guy to deter any potential enemies from messing with us. He will build up our military in a way that leads to LOTS more teeth and not so much tail - and no one is going to want to deal with those teeth, not from a guy who can’t spell “lose.” On the Israel issue - which I care about a LOT - Mattis won’t be making foreign policy. He also has a great deal of respect for the Israeli military, and strikes me as a guy who will listen to someone with whom he disagrees - he is a very studious person, and the very object of studying is to learn what you don’t know.
FYI, there isn’t EVER going to be a 2-state solution. The Pallies can NEVER compromise away their belief that Israel doesn’t even have the right to exist, and without that there is no agreement on anything of substance, let alone enough trust in Israel to allow them to be independent. There are also WAY too many Israelis on the ground in Judea and Samaria for them to be moved - it just isn’t going to happen (thank you, Menachem Begin!).
Besides, just having a guy in charge of DoD who gives strokes to the Left every time he opens his mouth is worth it.