Stormin' Norman <norman@schwarzkopf.in.memorium> wrote in
news:4r14vdl6edn4khjaq7jg8baim8ocb3csn3@4ax.com:
> Many of us delude ourselves that Jim Mattis is a buffer between
> Trump's insanity and Armageddon. That buffer might be wearing
> thin.....
>
>
> Well, something bad happened to General Mattis
>
>
> justify his deployment of thousands of troops to the border by talking
> about the threat of Mexican revolutionaries more than a century ago,
> it probably would have sailed right past me. Hyperbole, hysteria and
> convenient invocations of history are the native tongue of this
> administration, whose members were either fluent in it beforehand or
> picked it up quickly.
>
> But Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who recently evoked that specter,
> was supposed to speak a better language. He was known to be a saner
> amid the corruption and the barricade against disaster. I like to
> think that millions of American parents instructed their children to
> expand their bedtime prayers. Watch over Mommy. Protect Daddy. And
>
> Well, something bad happened to General Mattis.
>
> On Wednesday he traveled to southernmost Texas to visit those troops.
> The trip was a good and necessary thing. President Trump, for all his
> mingle with or pay tribute to servicemen and servicewomen; somebody
> noble goal. He was trying to assure them that if they missed
>
> propping up of this president requires it.
>
>
> Pancho Villa was a Mexican revolutionary who, along with hundreds of
> armed followers, attacked an American border town, burning houses and
> killing people, before retreating back into Mexico, where President
> Woodrow Wilson ordered him pursued. Mattis revisited that episode in
> remarks to reporters on his way to Texas.
>
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/opinion/mattis-border-trump.html
Since the "invasion" is headed to California there
are 5000 troops wanting to know why they will be
spending Thanksgiving sitting in the mud in South
Texas.
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