Speaking over the weekend at a conference in Singapore, Defense Secretary James Mattis urged the world to “bear with” the US as they adjust to the election of a new president, insisting that the US remains committed to engaging in global intervention, and that it is “very deeply rooted in the American psyche.”
Mattis insisted the 20th century ended any idea of America not constantly intervening in the world, and that Americans knew it would be “a crummy world” if they weren’t constantly involved in other countries’ affairs.
The comments were mostly directed at an audience of US allies who don’t like President Trump, and while he tried to assure them that nothing with respect to US policy had changed, other officials said they had the sense that what Mattis was saying was far different that what Trump himself is saying.
Trump’s stated position isn’t always in line with what he ends up doing, however, and with a slew of former generals in top positions, all of whom made their careers out of US interventionism, the idea that America will engage in anything but aggressive meddling seems doubtful.
General Mad Dog
““very deeply rooted in the American psyche.”
General Patton
“Americans love war, we love a good fight.”
don’t miss… independent lens …national bird …on PBS .
see how drones blow up hospitals and kill women and children
so Obama’s UBS banker buddy Robert wolf’s drone company
can get rich off taxpayer funded no-bid pentagon contracts
private drone contractors killing in the name of the USA taxpayer
for wolf & Obama to transfer all blame and vengeance and hatred
away from themselves and onto American citizens who have to pay for it
all , but do not benefit in any way from Robert wolf drone company…
Are we that f****ed up?
I know that’s a rhetorical question but the answer is yes. We are.
The fact that we call the Obama years ‘America in retreat’ just because we only destroyed Libya through bombing, armed one insurgency in Syria, and did drone assassinations in several countries but didn’t also bomb and destroy Syria is proof of that. Oh and these were our ‘non-interventionist’ years.
you forgot caused the refugee crisis in Europe!
A gay president with a transgender wife and borrowed kids. I thought that you couldn’t top that America but I guess Mencken was right. Oh, here’s a good one from a guy you heard about: “The thug is aware that loudness convinces sixty persons where reasoning convinces but one.” Mark Twain, the motherfucker has said all the good things and not left anything for us.
Obama did pretty well he brought us the Arab spring which took Tunisa , Egypt , Libya and Syria .
This empire was born of intervention…People seem to write off 330+tribes and nations but i do not-
labor unions need the war machine taxpayer dollar
You are a one-note samba and a single issue pin-head. ‘
Labor unions DO NOT START WARS. LABOR UNIONS ARE NOT IN CHARGE OF ANYTHING. You are probably a millionaire who can only think of chiseling your workers down into poverty so your great great great grandchildren can be as sorry as your @$$.
your still wrong
Do you mean to say, you’re? You are neither educated nor informed. You are an envious little man whose working neighbors make a nickel more per hour than you do. If you are SOOOOO resentful of union workers and their pay and benefits, get a good job. Get a Union job.
diversion will not stop taxpayer funded govt labor union corruption
You are sick because you are the products of a sick society, but you can get over it if you first realize it, admit it, and force those cocksuckers to have a runoff between Bernie Sanders and trump.
Jane O’Meara Sanders, “created a tax avoidance trust fund, called the Islands Family Trust,
The problem is that the World is fed up by the USA’ “commitment to interventions”.
If there was no US intervention in Afghanistan in the seventies or Syria and Libya at present we would have had NO AL Qaeda no Taliban No Al Nusra Front No ISIS, as they are ALL the direct result of US funding for regime change! There would also have been no Vietnam war, No Crimean Crisis as the US originally funded the Regime change Coup that caused that. We could easily continue with more and more examples!
headline…
Jul 27, 2016 – PHILADELPHIA – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, … Said
that if labor unions “fight side by side” in the streets , they can
better achieve their goals..
She is correct, unless they have already been too weakened by the fascists.
jon podesta sister in law heather is lobbyist for dc metro police dept who lost seth rich body cam footage
There really are not many labor union people any more only the public employees . and special professional people that get their liceinse from the public employees .
labor unions are the problem
Keep it stirred up. Good fishing in troubled waters.
Who Rules America: Taxpayer Funded Labor Unions .
The deep state , the UN , the established news media the establishment of both political parties and federal courts . But most of all the federal reserve bank with the power to print or not print money . It certainly is not Donald Trump like he thought it was going to be
labor unions are the problem …
Gee, if you enjoy a 40 hour workweek. If you enjoy the concept of a weekend, then you should thank and not attack the idea of labor unions. Without unions, everyone would be working 16 hours a day at least 6 days a week and still be broke all the time. Can’t deny that any “boss” would want exactly that without the idea of orgainzed workers.
more ignorant diversion
Sad-dog Mattis is dumber & uglier than any character out of Dr. Strangelove.
I couldn’t agree more .. Mattis is uglier and dumber than any character out of Dr. Strangelove. Why Trump would appoint him Secretary of Defense is beyond me. Mattis has been (and still is) a rabid warmonger .. No wonder, he was nicknamed “Mad Dog” which has stuck since. Even H. W. McMaster, Trump’s second National Security Adviser, has a bit of common sense, which Mattis lacks. McMaster warned Trump against waging war against Syria, as well as North Korea. Mattis, unfortunately, is all-out for war.
Trump sorely needs to rein in the Pentagon, but, especially his Secretary of Defense, who’s in charge of the Pentagon. He has to be reined in, or else, fired and replaced by someone with common sense and less warmongering tendencies. All life on this planet is at risk.
the software programs where the stock trade profits are skimmed is why war is allowed to continue
I agree with your sentiments completely. This Mad-dog does not represent what Trump claimed he believed in. If this fossilized fool thinks America will follow him into endless folly, I have news for him.
As a Presidential candidate, George W. Bush claimed to envision where our nation would “walk more humbly upon the world stage”. As soon as got a phony excuse and without the benefit of an investigation or a trial, it was off to the races – “Shock and Awe” bombing the Hell out of helpless people.
As a Presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and to live more diplomatically with our neighbors. However, once elected he chose the monstrously vicious Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and once again it was WAR a-go-go, tearing up the country of Libya and even bumbling into a hopeless quagmire in Syria.
Now, here we go again with Trump. Only Israel gets 100% of everything it wants from our elected leaders while our national debt explodes like a tomahawk missile at an Afghani wedding and our children go off again to die on the other side of the world for some nefarious cause never quite made clear, while murdering helpless innocent families and torturing the ones we don’t incinerate.
Dammit, what would it take to STOP these Billionarie$ from slaughtering humanity for the sake of their limitless greed?
It is astonishing at how mindless these interventionists are-they can not or will not recognize the consequences of American interventions because the americans have not done anything well. blunder, fumble, debate, and bomb, bomb.
If your salary depended on it…
Some people’s income depends on dealing cocaine and heroin. Some people depend on selling their bodies for their “salary”. Others, like Hillary depend upon selling government favors for their “salary”.
Killing people is WRONG. Killing millions of people is wrong, mass murdering helpless families from great distances in cowardly and wrong. Can’t you find another job that doesn’t make you an accessary to mass murder?
When the Soviet enemy disappeared, “international order” became one of the causes advanced for the same answers wanted by the same people.
They’ll talk that way until they have a new enemy they can use as they did the Soviets. In the meantime, what they do to promote order actually promotes chaos and every sort of disorder, everywhere they touch — and they don’t see that because they don’t really care about order. It is about power, and maintaining a big military as a permanent institution.
Their fear is demobilization as just after 1918 and 1945 — that is their real enemy.
Spot on, Mark. The one thing America’s Founders feared most, besides interventions overseas, is a large standing army. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson refer to such a standing army is its threat to Liberty. John Adams and his cousin, Samuel, knew exactly how threatening a standing army was, when British troops occupied Boston, terrorizing the population.
Sadly, the 21st Century so far has wrought more desolation worldwide by America’s wars of aggression, as well as the rise of terrorism. The wars on Iraq and Afghanistan not only killed over 4,000 US troops, but countless more civilians in those countries. Some of the worst atrocities committed in Iraq were by US troops, followed by their British partners. Who could ever forget those repulsive photos of prisoners being abused at the Abu Ghraib prison? This abuse was done to entertain the guards, which is outright evil. No wonder, the US has been hated by Iraqis and other Mideastern countries.
Hegelian dialectic
fake flags-man made crisis by war profit labor unions who need crisis & fear to scare taxpayers in to sending more and more tax dollars to their war machines , in exchange for protection of made up enemies
How do you spin this betrayal of Trump’s campaign rhetoric into a dimwitted diatribe against labor unions????
Labor unions DO NOT make war and labor unions do not launch false flag attacks on Americans in an attempt to stampede us into attacking innocent or helpless people.
you could not be more wrong or ignorant
This country is awash in corruption and hate. Your pinheaded approach to assigning the blame for our Nazi behavior on labor unions is insane.
People like you are using what little influence you have, to tear down the working man and woman and deny them their rightfully earned pension and benefits.
yet the corrupt govt employee labor unions remain unaccountable and remain funded
You are permanently stuck on stupid.
yes you are.
look for more taxpayer funded judges to keep the borders open to illegals.
judges are public employee labor union members
just 1 example
http://republicbroadcasting.org/shoutcast/shoutcast.html
Jason writes: “while he (Mattis)tried to assure them that nothing with respect to US policy had changed, other officials said they had the sense that what Mattis was saying was far different that what Trump himself is saying.”
These “officials” (It would be good to get some quotes.) know that there is a powerful strain of anti-imperialism in Trump’s thought. That is what “America Frist” means among other things. I wish that American peace advocates could acknowledge this and work to strengthen that strain of Trump’s thought. But no, they engage in the fashionable bashing of Trump leaving him with many fewer anti-Empire advocates willing to talk with him and his supporters.
That is infantile and ignores the opportunities at hand. Those opportunities include rapprochement with Russia and China which could lead us away from the dangers of WW and toward a global structure of peace. Of course such rapprochement is anathema to neocons and, sadly, to progressives who seem more interested in electing Dem imperialists than starting on the road to peace among the major powers.
You’re right — but Trump isn’t doing much to help. He’s the one who put Neocon Nazis like Mattis into office. He’s the one who launched missiles at Syria, dropped the MOAB in Afghanistan, and is getting carrier fleets in place to attack North Korea.
What way do we have of strengthening that strain of Trump’s thought without bashing him when he does what the Neocon Nazis tell him to do?
If he does go back to the non-interventionist ideas he voiced while campaigning, he can still be good. But right now he seems to be headed the other way and turning into another Hitlery Clinton.
trump is making all the needed moves which put more taxpayer money in the pocket of sheldon adelson and other fund investor clients of trump’s computer software rigger / campaign donor
Casino government
America Frist is his campaign slogan for the next election that he has already started. He has 500 pass through corporations and is working hard between golf and the guys to get his tax debt reduced. Did you know he was gay? Melania does.
As Americans with “globalist” interference “deeply rooted in our psyche”, we expect to bomb the holy Hell out of one country after another like Hitler only “good guys” wise.
It’s good when we intervene in other’s affairs, but EVIL when others “interfere” in OUR elections.
It’s good if we move ABMs to encircle Russia & China, but unthinkable if Russia installs ABMs in Cuba.
General Mad-dog Mattis puts the lie to every promise Trump made during his presidential crusade. During the election contest with Hillary, Trump signaled he intended to be president of the United States rather than try to rule the world.
Mattis’ statement/promise of perpetual interference in the affairs of other nations is one of the most monstrously stupid pronouncements I have ever heard a man make. It reeks of hypocrisy and chutzpah and is far more akin to a demonic dictator on a world mega-death campaign.
govt war funded labor unions need more taxpayer dollars
$o war will continue
Time to fire Mattis – he’s obviously yet another Neonazi terrorist.
Trump: Go ahead and drain the swamp of Mattis, or face the fact that we’re seeing through you being part of the swamp as well.
noting will change until the war machine labor unions are exposed
You are one hateful @$$. Some neighbor of yours makes 50 cents more on the hour and you have an envy meltdown. EVERY POST you make is against working people. Your hard-on against labor unions is raw compressed hate.
Get a life, squirrel.
labor unions are the problem ruining america
GFY
If Trump does not solve the health care crisses he will be a one term president . And the republicans don’t care they want tax cuts . We need to bring the top rate back to 90%.
beginning to see
the American people have zero say in their so called elected “but actually” deep state corrupted govt labor union run govt.
NO National decisions are made by labor unions. No labor unions have any power in this country. You freaks have betrayed unions and their workers past the breaking point. Most of us haven’t even had jobs for over 8 years. Before you start parceling out blame, take a long look in the mirror and then start a hundred stories higher on the food chain before blaming the struggling working people.
you are just uninformed. the labor unions will be outed as the ponzi scam collapses
computers specializing in computational linguistics , working 24 hours a day to squeeze the maximum amount of taxpayer dollars out of America
His vocabulary is as crude as his character.
“Gold is the money of kings,
silver is the money of gentlemen,
barter is the money of peasants –
but
debt is the money of slaves.”..
The smoking gun is the military industrial complex. They are the common denominator between defense budgets, imperialist foreign policy and Presidents that can’t keep their finger off the trigger. If you wonder why Presidents claim to be for “warrious interuptous” and then turn into their predecessors, look no further than the suits who run the weapons manufacturing companies and the banks and service companies that benefit from it. They are the “deep state”.
LOL! “deeply rooted in the American psyche…” WOW that might be one of the sharpest condemnations of America blurted out by it’s own Defense Secretary!
The sad thing is it’s more true than ever. I don’t think you’re going to see any passionate demonstrations or “march for truth about the American psyche” over Mattis’ unintentionally damning comments.
The peace movement in your country has been dying of fatigue for a long time, but the Obama administration and it’s embrace of continued US interventionism seems to have legitimized this among to most of the Left and made it unacceptable to oppose colonialism by proxy among that population segment. Today the mainstream of both parties are in unprecedented agreement on militarism.
Headline could read “US military remains committed to bankrupting America”
Somebody is obviously worried that too much free speech was occuring in these fora because they’ve obviously increased the number of paid trolls assigned to disrupt.
Mattis just confirmed what Putin was saying to Megan Kelly in her interview with him last night, regarding who really runs the country and it ain’t the President.
Someone needs to tell this guy, that what works best for Exon, is not especially the best for America…
Yet more evidence that elections mean nothing in the US. The military Deep State does whatever it wants, legally or illegally, not really caring much about what the public thinks.