Mattis, who served 41 years in the Marine Corps, said the United States does not necessarily need to send ground troops into Iraq or Syria to engage in direct combat with the Islamic State. For all their brutality, \u201cyou don\u2019t have to use the best military\u201d against them because \u201cthese people aren\u2019t that good,\u201d the general said.<\/p>\n
But broadcasting up front an unwillingness to use ground troops in Iraq, despite an expanded mission there, creates problems, both Mattis and Crocker said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpecifically, if this threat to our nation is determined to be as significant as I believe it is, we may not wish to reassure our enemies in advance that they will not see American \u2018boots on the ground,\u2019 \u201d Mattis said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Of course, we can only hope that the thugs in al Shabab, al Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram and anyone I happened to leave out are as confused as the media and the American public are from the mixed and muddled messages that are coming out of this administration. While president is telling troops at MacDill AFB that he’s not sending them to Iraq, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is telling Congress that he’s willing to make exactly that move. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Washington Post quotes iconic Marine General James Mattis at the House Intelligence Committee earlier today; … Mattis: You just don\u2019t take anything off the table up front<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"James](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/James-Mattis1-300x201.jpg\")
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n