{"id":32833,"date":"2018-10-14T22:01:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T22:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32833"},"modified":"2018-10-14T22:01:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T22:01:33","slug":"hoping-that-mattis-stays-put","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32833","title":{"rendered":"Hoping that Mattis stays put"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/th-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32834\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/th-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This news is distressing in the extreme.<\/p>\n<p>The one individual serving in the Donald J. Trump administration that I want to stay might be calling it a day. Defense Secretary James Mattis reportedly, allegedly, supposedly is on the bubble.<\/p>\n<p>He might bail from the administration. It has been reported that the defense boss is unhappy with the commander in chief. Bob Woodward&#8217;s new book, &#8220;Fear,&#8221; attributes some unkind remarks from the retired Marine Corps general about the president.<\/p>\n<p>He has opposed Trump&#8217;s policy pronouncements, such as the one that bans transgender troops from serving in the military. Mattis also believes the U.S. pullout from the Paris climate accord is a mistake. And, as Woodward reported in &#8220;Fear,&#8221; Mattis had to explain to the president that the presence of 28,000 U.S. troops in South Korea is intended to &#8220;prevent World War III.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I will refrain from attaching the &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221; nickname to Mattis; he reportedly hates the term, so I won&#8217;t use it other than to <em>refer<\/em> to it.<\/p>\n<p>Mattis is a grownup. He is a tested combat veteran who knows full well the consequences of war.<\/p>\n<p>He is mature. He is reasonable. He is measured.<\/p>\n<p>Mattis is precisely the kind of presence that Donald Trump needs close to him in times of crisis.<\/p>\n<p>And, so what if James Mattis is &#8220;sort of a Democrat,&#8221; as Trump has said? Defense policy should be far removed from partisan politics.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news is distressing in the extreme. The one individual serving in the Donald J. Trump administration that I want to stay might be calling it a day. Defense Secretary James Mattis reportedly, allegedly, supposedly is on the bubble. He might bail from the administration. It has been reported that the defense boss is unhappy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32833\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hoping that Mattis stays put<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[7005,1424,6705],"class_list":["post-32833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-dod","tag-donald-trump","tag-james-mattis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833","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=32833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32835,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833\/revisions\/32835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}