{"id":29067,"date":"2018-04-07T21:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29067"},"modified":"2018-04-07T21:03:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:03:41","slug":"its-secretary-not-general-mattis-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29067","title":{"rendered":"It’s ‘Secretary,’ not ‘General’ Mattis, Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am going to quibble briefly over something I keep hearing from Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n

The president keeps referring to the secretary of defense, James “Mad Dog” Mattis, by his former title. He once was a Marine four-star general. He’s a combat veteran who’s quite proud of his service to the country. I happen to be a fan of “Mad Dog” Mattis.<\/p>\n

However, he’s no longer in the Marine Corps. Yeah, yeah. I know: Once a Marine, always a Marine. Blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

He is a civilian. I want the president to refer to James Mattis as “Secretary Mattis,” which would reflect the principle of civilian control of the U.S. military.<\/p>\n

Trump recently made the reference while discussing the deployment of National Guard troops along our southern border.<\/p>\n

“Mad Dog” Mattis no longer wears a uniform to work, Mr. President. He wears suits and ties, just like you do.<\/p>\n

So, please refer to him by his current title of “Secretary” Mattis.<\/p>\n

There. Quibble over.<\/p>\n\n

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I am going to quibble briefly over something I keep hearing from Donald J. Trump. The president keeps referring to the secretary of defense, James “Mad Dog” Mattis, by his former title. He once was a Marine four-star general. He’s a combat veteran who’s quite proud of his service to the country. I happen to … Continue reading It’s ‘Secretary,’ not ‘General’ Mattis, Mr. President<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[7690,1315,6705,2901,3201],"class_list":["post-29067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-civilian-control","tag-defense-secretary","tag-james-mattis","tag-marine-corps","tag-national-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29069,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29067\/revisions\/29069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}