Is Mad Dog Mattis An Idiot ???

At a graduation ceremony for the US Naval War College ... US Secretary of Defense James Mattis asserted that Russian President Vladimir Putin “aims to diminish the appeal of the western democratic model and attempts to undermine America’s moral authority,” and that “his actions are designed not to challenge our arms at this point but to undercut and compromise our belief in our ideals.”

This would be the same James Mattis who’s been overseeing the war crimes committed by America’s armed forces during their illegal occupation of Syria. This would be the same United States of America that was born of the genocide of indigenous tribes and the labor of African slaves, which slaughtered millions in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, Libya and Syria for no legitimate reason, which is partnered with Ukrainian Nazis, jihadist factions in Syria and Iranian terror cultists, which supports 73 percent of the world’s dictators, which interferes constantly in the electoral processes of other countries as a matter of policy, which stages coups around the world, which has encircled the globe with military bases, whose FBI still targets black civil rights activists for persecution to this very day, which routinely enters into undeclared wars of aggression against noncompliant governments to advance plutocratic interests, which remains the only country ever to use nuclear weapons on human beings after doing so completely needlessly in Japan, and which is functionally a corporatist oligarchy with no meaningful “democratic model” in place at all.

You can read the rest @
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/06/17/mattis-putin-is-trying-to-undermine-americas-moral-authority/

Marines exist to kill. That's it. They don't need a reason, just an order. And Mattis is the perfect embodiment of that mentality.

We have no moral authority. All we have is weapons of death, and we use them like a homicidal maniac.

We would do well to carefully examine and reflect upon who we are and what we are doing before we spend this country into bankruptcy in the pursuit of the kind of nonsense Mattis represents.