My latest in PJ Media: It’s an odd statement coming from anyone who was ever in the U.S. government. President Trump’s former Defense Secretary James Mattis has declared, in a Foreign Affairs op-ed co-written with establishment foreign policy wonk Kori Schake, that he hopes a Biden administration won’t put America first. He didn’t say which […]
Mattis: Obama didn’t respond to Iran jihad bomb plot on US soil because of nuclear deal
More treason from the post-American President. “Mattis: Obama Failed to Respond to Iran Bomb Plot on U.S. Soil Because of Nuclear Deal,” by Matt Margolis, PJ Media, September 5, 2019: After the surprise resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis last December, Democrats were quick to politicize the news, and have certainly been hoping ever […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Trump is Right to Withdraw from Syria
But James Mattis and other failed analysts are still pushing their failed policies and demanding we stay there. My latest in FrontPage: President Trump has ordered a rapid withdrawal of the 2,000 remaining U.S. troops in Syria, prompting the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis and arousing the ire of CNN – both excellent indications […]
Taliban try to kill Mattis during Afghanistan visit, say Afghan security forces tipped them off
“NBC spoke with two unidentified Taliban commanders, who claimed sources in Afghanistan’s security apparatus tipped them off to Mattis’s visit. Mattis…told reporters that Afghan forces would strongly oppose the action.”…”They will find Afghan security forces against them.” Maybe they will. But will they find Afghan security forces for them? Why not? Afghan forces supposedly on […]
Trump, Pence, Mattis, Sessions fail to name “Islamic terrorism” in 9/11 remarks
The Trump administration: now digitally McMastered. “Instead of naming the enemy, Trump seemingly went out of his way to use other descriptors in his speech, including ‘terrorists who attacked us,’ ‘barbaric forces of evil and destruction,’ ‘horrible, horrible enemies,’ ‘enemies of all civilized people,’ and ‘enemies like we’ve never seen before.’” That’s great, Mr. President, […]
McMaster, Mattis, and Tillerson prod Trump to send more American troops to train Afghan forces
If this article is accurate, Trump is now fully a captive of the swamp. The Afghanistan misadventure has no purpose, no focus, and no goal. The Taliban and the Islamic State and other forces that want the Americans out are never going to give up, and there is no chance whatsoever that Afghanistan is going […]
Mattis says al-Qaeda terrorists “defame Islam”
“The death of Qari Yasin is evidence that terrorists who defame Islam and deliberately target innocent people will not escape justice.” It seems as if all those with any power or influence anywhere in the Western world, all across the political spectrum, have agreed to back a fiction and pretend that Islam is other than […]
Mattis withdraws pro-Muslim Brotherhood Obama-era Mattis pick for undersecretary for policy
This is good. It is unfortunate that Mattis wanted Patterson in the first place. The Egyptian people knew what Anne Patterson was all about. She figured prominently on the signs that protesters against the Muslim Brotherhood regime carried as they ousted the Brotherhood regime in 2013. Free Egyptians roundly criticized her and Obama for supporting […]