Loyalty can admit differences. You do not spit on someone just because he differs in some small way from someone you say you like more. This whole process of turning people from heroes to villains overnight is the core process of left wing lunatic regimes populated by GroupThink and general imbecility. Don’t be an imbecile.
Mattis is Mattis. He disagrees with Trump, and for all we know he may be right. I support the President, even as I opposed deploying more than a couple hundred Spec Op VOLUNTEERS to that theater. We have no strategic interests in Syria. It is a humanitarian mission, as I see it, to stop the mass rapes, crucifixions, and general murder and mayhem, all of it facilitated by Barack Hussein Obama, when he supplied training, money and arms to people everyone knew at the time were Islamic radicals. Medicins Sans Frontieres was writing about this in 2012. I remember it. I probably blogged on it, and certainly commented on it on the internet.
The war in Syria was created by Obama, or, at least, made vastly more violent, costly, and lengthy than it would have been, if he had not used American resources illegally and covertly to fuck everything up. We can’t know why, but my best guess is that his relationship with the Saudis was in reality what Trump’s relationship with Russia is in the opium dreams and wet dreams of the Left.
For my part, I didn’t even know “we” were “in” Syria. I haven’t read shit about that conflict in months. I haven’t read shit about ISIS in a very long time. Have you? Was the same Left that now values that war–which has less than a tenth the strategic importance Vietnam did, if even that–writing about this? Were they writing about the courage of our troops? The details of specific battles? Eulogies for the fallen? I haven’t seen it. It seems likely that if Trump wanted it, they opposed it. Again: these motherfuckers believe nothing. They can switch their beliefs on a dime. They are functional nihilists, not good people, not stand up people, not reliable people, not people working for any cause worthier other than the on-going medication of their chronic anxiety through the medicine of politically based anger and rage.
It does seem likely we are fucking the Kurds over, in particular. If I were Trump, I would allow some proportion of the people serving there to end their enlistments, if they feel strongly, and go back as mercenaries, perhaps with American provided arms and money. Or we could just send Blackwater, or whatever its current name is, back in there. There is a moral value in what they are doing, but everyone there needs to be there only and solely because they want to be. Risking and losing American lives for purposes which do not even approximate meeting the propaganda about “protecting freedom” is cruel and unnecessary.
Our nation is under attack from the southern border. That is a true crisis, a true place where the “defense of freedom” might actually mean something. The Democrats want to import and legalize sufficient people who have radically different beliefs that they can win elections forever. This is treason, and it needs to be opposed both physically at the border, and legally at the ballot box. Their cheating needs, also, to be punished much more severely than it has to date. By and large, they have paid no price, even when caught. There is no downside to doing their best to thwart the will of the voters. There needs to be.