Risk of Unleashing ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis >> Een losgeslagen psychopaat als VS minister van defensie……

In
mid-April, after a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan, President Trump
explained his thinking as he reveled in the first use of the massive
“mother of all bombs” that was dropped on an Islamic State target
in Afghanistan.

Trump
said, “What I do is I authorize my military, we have the greatest
military in the world, and they’ve done the job, as usual. We have
given them total authorization, and that’s what they’re doing.
Frankly, that’s why they’ve been so successful lately. If you
look at what’s happened over the last eight weeks and compare that
really to what has happened over the last eight years, you’ll see
there is a tremendous difference.”

That
bombing in Afghanistan followed Trump’s order to fire 59 Tomahawk
missiles aimed at a Syrian government airfield that he alleged to be
the launch point for an April 4 chemical weapons attack on the town
of Khan Sheikhoun.

Besides
the missile strike – for which Trump got no authorization from
either Congress or the United Nations Security Council – U.S.
warplanes bombed pro-government forces inside Syria for allegedly
getting too close to U.S.-backed rebels and shot down a Syrian plane
for the same reason. These attacks against Syrian government targets
represented an escalation of U.S. participation in the six-year-old
conflict. President Obama had limited direct U.S. attacks against
ISIS positions inside Syria.

Although
Mattis intentionally limits his contact with the public and the
press, some of his past statements reveal his mindset. In Iraq in
2003, Mattis coached arriving Marines, “Be polite, be professional,
but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” And in 2005, the man
who has been unleashed by the President said, “You go into
Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years
because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t
got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot
them. Actually it’s quite fun to fight them, you know. It’s a
hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up
there with you. I like brawling.”

With
Mattis at the Pentagon’s helm, the Trump administration has rapidly
shifted toward a military dynamic, taking aim at many of the old
neocon targets, including Syria and Iran. Mattis’s combative
perspective seems to be at the core of these policies although – as
a military officer – he does recognize the realities of war.

In
late May, Mattis gave a rare interview to CBS’s 
Face
The Nation
.
Speaking about North Korea, he declared that the conflict could turn
“catastrophic” and “would be probably the worst kind of
fighting in most people’s lifetimes.”

The
shallow compliments showered upon men like Mattis are symptoms of a
country blindly embracing an egotistical and militaristic mindset.

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