Yesterday, Secretary of Defense James Mattis tendered his resignation.
While I'm sure Trump has probably grated on Mattis for a while, this is the first major policy issue that Mattis has lost that he really cares about.
President Barack Obama fired General James Mattis, the head of Central Command, without even calling the general to let him know he was being replaced.
"I am told that General Mattis was travelling and in a meeting when an aide passed him a note telling him that the Pentagon had announced his replacement as head of Central Command. It was news to him - he hadn't received a phone call or a heads-up from anyone at the Pentagon or the White House," Thomas E. Ricks reports.
TANSTAAFL. More to that, I think Mattis lives by a code of loyalty.
My guess is that Mattis has reached a point where he no longer believes he can work for President Trump and his only options are to accept a way of doing business that he opposes or to carry out a guerrilla war against the President, and he is too much a professional to do that.
What we will lose with Mattis is decades of experience and mountains of integrity at a critical time.
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/12/21/general-mattis-gives-master-class-integrity-loyalty/
While I'm sure Trump has probably grated on Mattis for a while, this is the first major policy issue that Mattis has lost that he really cares about.
President Barack Obama fired General James Mattis, the head of Central Command, without even calling the general to let him know he was being replaced.
"I am told that General Mattis was travelling and in a meeting when an aide passed him a note telling him that the Pentagon had announced his replacement as head of Central Command. It was news to him - he hadn't received a phone call or a heads-up from anyone at the Pentagon or the White House," Thomas E. Ricks reports.
TANSTAAFL. More to that, I think Mattis lives by a code of loyalty.
My guess is that Mattis has reached a point where he no longer believes he can work for President Trump and his only options are to accept a way of doing business that he opposes or to carry out a guerrilla war against the President, and he is too much a professional to do that.
What we will lose with Mattis is decades of experience and mountains of integrity at a critical time.
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/12/21/general-mattis-gives-master-class-integrity-loyalty/
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