James Mattis Is a Secretary of Offense

By David Swanson

Donald Trump says he wants to stop overthrowing governments and turn toward peace. But not only does he also say he wants to increase the military spending that produces more wars, but he’s considering for Secretary of so-called Defense someone whose entire outlook is offensive in every sense of the word.

Here’s James Mattis in his own words:

“So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually it’s quite fun to fight them, you know. It’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up there with you. I like brawling.”

Of course any wars continued or launched will be packaged as “last resorts” and “necessary evils” and so forth. But this guy will be drooling for blood with the glee of a sadist. War is his drug, or what Donald Trump would call his “sneaking into women’s dressing rooms.” Here’s Mattis:

“There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.”

Not only is war the force that gives Mattis’s life meaning, but it’s his ideology, his worldview, his delusion in which the counterproductive can be seen as effective. Here’s Mattis:

“I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all.”

Surely peace is at hand!

“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” That’s how Mattis states what Theodore Roosevelt and every president since have acted on.

Only, one gets the impression that Mattis added the part about politeness because he isn’t. What he is, is a true believer in the irredeemability of designated enemies. There shall be no destroying an enemy by making him your friend for Mattis. He maintains:

“It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy’s?”

And that enemy is by necessity, then, not human but subhuman prey:

“Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down.”

Mattis explains this as a matter of simple observation:

“There are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.”

That’s a belief of U.S. culture, of U.S. movies, of U.S. books, of U.S. games. But when you make it the belief of the Secretary of War after giving presidents the power to kill anybody they like, you’re going to see a lot of people getting shot. And no, none of them need to be.

3 Responses

  1. You are weak. You cannot smile and close your eyes in the sunshine with the rainbows and unicorns, just hoping everybody all just want to get along. If we were to do something insane, like, disband our military entirely, our enemies would come and lay down the hammer. In today’s society people like you somehow got this idea in your head that we can all just get along. No, we cant. As nice as you want to be, reality is, you cant control what other people think of you. The day war isnt necessary will be the day people stop murdering each other in the streets and crime has ceased to exist. Wait, whats that? Crime has always existed and murder has as well and always will be a thing? Exactly. Humans by nature, can be violent and evil. Come join us here in reality, where we need to be strong, and you ought be thanking any God you believe in, that he created a man like Mattis who is ready and willing to do the unspeakable so that YOU dont have to.

  2. John you hit the nail on the fucking head because its only when mattis is taking people that need to be taken down down that people can cling to the idea its wrong in the old days and primal world everyone killed each other because they knew something pretty obvious i dont know how dangerous that guy is or what hes going to do so ill fuck him before he fucks me

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