28 Apr 2018

The Right Kind of Secretary of Defense

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Free Beacon reports that Mattis ordered the annihilation of Russian mercenaries in Syria.

Secretary of Defense James Mattis explained Thursday why he directed a strike that reportedly killed hundreds of Russian mercenaries in Syria back in February.

Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the U.S. has a deconfliction line with Russia to ensure that the two countries can communicate in order to avoid direct conflict with one another in Syria. He said that a group of “irregular forces” were in conflict with U.S. forces, and once it was ascertained that those forces were not Russian regulars, Mattis directed a counterattack.

“The Russian high command in Syria assured us it was not their people, and my direction to the chairman was for the force, then, to be annihilated,” Mattis said. “And it was.”

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ed in texas

Sometimes deniability is not your friend.
“Oh, no, these are not our people.”
“So you won’t object if I mash them like a bug, then?”



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