Nobody talking about Mattis?
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 3:20 pmSurprised to see nobody here talking about the Mattis resignation.
For the record:
https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2018/12/mattis-letter2.pdf
I'm of two minds here. On the one hand, Trump is a lying, cheating dirtbag and it's always nice to see anything that causes him embarrassment.
On the other hand, interventionism is almost always a bad thing. Ending America's pointless adventures in Syria and Afghanistan is the right thing to do.
Since the announcement of the Syria pullout, there has been a swarm of generals, former generals, diplomats, former diplomats, pundits and miscellaneous self-proclaimed experts lining up to condemn the pullout, coalescing of course around Mattis' resignation and other resignations such as McGurk's. If truth could be determined by numbers, they'd certainly be in the right. But they're not. You have to remember that this is the military-industrial complex, these are the people who earn their incomes from perpetuating wars, the people that we have been warned against by thinkers as diverse as Dwight Eisenhower and George Orwell, James Madison and Noam Chomsky, Milton Friedman and Georges Sorel. The Mattises and the McGurks have earned their bread and butter -- a very nice grade of bread and butter -- from coming up with reasons why America should continue to fly around the world, beating the shit out of Third World countries who refuse to kowtow. Now that there is a chance the gravy train might slow down -- definitely not stop, but slow down just a little -- they are closing ranks to protect their jobs.
I hate liars, I hate cheats, I hate blowhards. For all these reasons, I hate Trump, who tells lie after lie from dawn till dusk, who has cheated millions, and who is the hardest-blowing blowhard ever. It would be great if I could just move with the mob and revel in his embarrassment over the Mattis resignation.
Nonetheless, if I am to remain intellectually and morally honest, I have to admit that this time he's doing the right thing. The military-industrial complex that is closing ranks against him are the long-term enemy. For all his wrongs, this time Trump is right, and it would be a shame if he was to back down in the face of the generals.
For the record:
https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2018/12/mattis-letter2.pdf
I'm of two minds here. On the one hand, Trump is a lying, cheating dirtbag and it's always nice to see anything that causes him embarrassment.
On the other hand, interventionism is almost always a bad thing. Ending America's pointless adventures in Syria and Afghanistan is the right thing to do.
Since the announcement of the Syria pullout, there has been a swarm of generals, former generals, diplomats, former diplomats, pundits and miscellaneous self-proclaimed experts lining up to condemn the pullout, coalescing of course around Mattis' resignation and other resignations such as McGurk's. If truth could be determined by numbers, they'd certainly be in the right. But they're not. You have to remember that this is the military-industrial complex, these are the people who earn their incomes from perpetuating wars, the people that we have been warned against by thinkers as diverse as Dwight Eisenhower and George Orwell, James Madison and Noam Chomsky, Milton Friedman and Georges Sorel. The Mattises and the McGurks have earned their bread and butter -- a very nice grade of bread and butter -- from coming up with reasons why America should continue to fly around the world, beating the shit out of Third World countries who refuse to kowtow. Now that there is a chance the gravy train might slow down -- definitely not stop, but slow down just a little -- they are closing ranks to protect their jobs.
I hate liars, I hate cheats, I hate blowhards. For all these reasons, I hate Trump, who tells lie after lie from dawn till dusk, who has cheated millions, and who is the hardest-blowing blowhard ever. It would be great if I could just move with the mob and revel in his embarrassment over the Mattis resignation.
Nonetheless, if I am to remain intellectually and morally honest, I have to admit that this time he's doing the right thing. The military-industrial complex that is closing ranks against him are the long-term enemy. For all his wrongs, this time Trump is right, and it would be a shame if he was to back down in the face of the generals.
