23, October 2019 Mattis fires
back, with grace & humor
Donald Trump has a long history
using the bully pulpit to silence his critics.
At the Golden Globes award he insulted movie super star Meryl Streep as
one of “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood after she rebuked
him. He mocked “a Hillary flunky who lost big.” He then mocked a disabled New
York Times reporter.
More recently, he insulted
General Mattis as an overrated general.
But Mattis fired back,
reminding Trump that he “earned his his spurs at the battlefield, while Trump
“earned his spurs from a letter from the doctor – a jab at his former boss who
escaped the Vietnam draft from “a friendly doctor’s” letter. He further
ridiculed the president’s adoration of Colonel Sanders,” the founder of the
Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food restaurant chain.
General Mattis resigned with
dignity and grace after he cited irreconcilable policy differences with the
president’s erratic foreign policy blunders.
The former defense secretary’s
comments Thursday night come as Trump faces bipartisan criticism over his
decision to withdraw US troops from Syria. Last Wednesday, the House
overwhelmingly passed a resolution opposing Trump’s troop withdrawal.
Earlier in the day, retired four-star
Admiral William McRaven, the architect of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden
said Trump was working to “destroy” the country from “within” and “without.”
We are all waiting with bated
breath for the next barrage of nasty tweets.
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