What is the low down on General Mattis?

[Baitball Blogger]

I thought he had bipartisan support.

Updated for clarity.

Everyone was in support of his appointment, and in the first failed mission he has an honorable mention in the decision-making process. Right-wingers are happy to pin the failure on Mattis and the Pentagon, and are giving Trump a pass. They seem to be comfortable with a no-nothing president making decisions that keep turning up less than desirable results, and are perfectly okay with blaming it on his support staff. If this is going to be a pattern, we are never going to come together as a nation.

[femmocrat]

1. What are you referring to? nt

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Everyone was in support of his appointment, and in the first failed mission he has an

honorable mention in the decision-making process. Right-wingers are happy to pin the failure on Mattis and the Pentagon, and are giving Trump a pass. They seem to be comfortable with a no-nothing president making decisions that keep turning up less than desirable effects, and are perfectly okay with blaming it on his support staff. If this is going to be a pattern, we are never going to come together as a nation.

(I am going to add this to my original post to make it more clear. Thank you.)

[cadmium]

2. I like him so far

He seems like the #1 voice of reason in the midst of a ship of fools and monsters -- at least what I have seen and heard from him.

[braddy]

3. You mean the confirmation vote?

[Baitball Blogger]

6. I updated my original post for clarity.

[ksoze]

5. Trump appeared to be more enamored with his nickname.

Probably only heard he was called "Mad Dog" and said, thats he's our guy.

[Orsino]

7. Nothing is ever Trump's fault.

Failures will be spun as successes until they can't be, and then someone else will get the blame.

Mattis has actual qualifications, but that won't matter when mindless doctrine inevitably leads to operational failure. Mattis is just a prop serving at the pleasure of an erratic president.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. I don't really trust him.

He has a weird "rah rah" attitude about him that rubs me the wrong way, in terms of recklessly aggressive. The whole "shooting people is fun" thing was a huge turn off.

And if he was calling the shots on this raid, it seems like my suspicions are warranted.

[Thrill]

9. Don't be fooled. He likely was overruled

The guy is the only sane one in the Cabinet. Don't let them blame him for Bannon decisions

[femmocrat]

10. Well, there was that nasty business about "war crimes" ---

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/13/1620157/-James-Mad-Dog-Mattis-War-Criminal

I don't remember this getting any mention in the confirmation hearings. But then it is all becoming a huge blur of corruption and wretchedness.