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Mark Alexander · Dec. 7, 2016
["490"]“National aegis is one of the basal duties of a statesman.” —John Adams (1815)
In 1790, George Washington categorical in his aboriginal anniversary bulletin to the nation his adage of accord through above firepower: “To be able for war, is one of the best accomplishing agency of attention peace.”
The “peace through strength” assumption was cyclically borne out over the 200 years amid Washington and Ronald Reagan. As President Reagan said famously, “‘Deterrence’ agency artlessly this: authoritative abiding any antagonist who thinks about advancing the United States, or our allies, or our basic interests, concludes that the risks to him outweigh any abeyant gains. Already he understands that, he won’t attack. We beforehand the accord through our strength; weakness alone invites aggression.”
But our adequate backbone afterwards the Jimmy Carter abortion was blown by Bill Clinton, who abandoned the growing Islamist blackmail and afresh bootless to abrogate Osama bin Laden.
Again, cyclically, afterwards the adverse 9/11 beforehand on our nation, President George W. Bush endeavored to clean our aggressive ability in adjustment to arraign Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and to win a hard-fought aggressive achievement in Iraq.
But no eventually had Bush larboard arrangement than Barack Obama and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, maliciously began to attenuate our continuing in the apple — so abundant so that our nation’s aegis is, already again, at abundant risk.
In 1815, John Adams wrote, “National aegis is one of the basal duties of a statesman.” From a built-in perspective, and in ablaze of all-around threats we face today — including adverse nuclear threats that our Founders could not accept envisioned — I would altercate that civic aegis is THE basal assignment of a statesman.
Enter President-elect Donald Trump, who appear aftermost anniversary that he would appoint Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis as secretary of defense.
Putting the Pentagon beneath the allegation of a man nicknamed “Mad Dog” puts the common enemies of Liberty on notice.
Consider how altered our aggressive acknowledgment to Iran’s hijacking of our Navy barge and its seamen would accept been if a Marine called “Mad Dog” was at the captain of DoD. Those Iranians would accept been toast. Of course, if “Mad Dog” was at the helm, Iranian audience would never accept ventured into battlefront ambit of one of our vessels.
Our allies account James Mattis for his assured adventuresomeness and character, and our adversaries abhorrence him for the aforementioned reason.
Gen. Mattis served until March 2013 as the 11th administrator of U.S. CentCom, aback Barack Obama affected him into aboriginal retirement. Afterwards 41 years in Marine leadership, Gen. Mattis was not accommodating to comedy forth with Obama’s political retreat from Iraq, which was anon amenable for the acceleration of the Islamic Accompaniment and the altruistic crisis that followed.
After his retirement ceremony, Mattis planned a cross-country drive aback to his home accompaniment of Washington, but, according to his colleague, MajGen. Michael Ennis, “The avenue he chose was dictated by the Gold Star Mothers he had to arrangement forth the way … zig-zagging to get to as abounding as he could to alone allocution to them. He alone wrote hand-written addendum to every ancestor whose son or babe was dead beneath his command.”
["1500"]The admired 63-year-old administrator became an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and was afterwards called the Davies Distinguished Visiting Fellow.
Reflecting on Obama’s retreat from prosecuting ISIL, in 2014 Gen. Mattis testified, “You aloof don’t booty annihilation off the table up front, which it appears the administering has approved to do. Specifically, if this blackmail to our nation is bent to be as cogent as I accept it is, we may not ambition to assure our enemies in beforehand that they will not see American ‘boots on the ground.’ If a army of our paratroopers or a army landing aggregation of our Marines would strengthen our allies at a key choice and actualize calamity [and] abasement for our adversaries, afresh we should do what is all-important with our armament that abide for that actual purpose. We accept the best skilled, angry and absolutely the best ethical arena armament in the apple and I don’t anticipate we should assure the adversary in beforehand that they will never face him.”
Mattis abbreviated Obama’s adopted action as “strategic atrophy.”
He was abundant too kind… The admission administering faces what all admission Republican administrations accept faced in the aftermost aeon afterwards Democrats depart: Adopted action FUBAR!
I accept never met Jim Mattis, but several of our Civic Advisory Board aggressive associates accept served beside him in chief aggressive billets. They call Mattis as a modern-day George Patton, but after all the balmy fuzzies!
They accede with the Marine Corps Times' appraisal that Mattis is the “most admired Marine in a generation,” admirable of a abode alongside allegorical Leathernecks such as LtGen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller and LtGen. John A. Lejeune.
James Mattis is accepted as a apprentice of history. In this respect, he’s agnate to his Apple War II Army predecessor, Gen. George “Old Blood and Guts” Patton, who was additionally a abounding clairvoyant — decidedly of his enemy’s writings. Mattis has a claimed library that exceeds 7,000 volumes and is accepted as the “Warrior Monk” both for his ability and for actuality a constant bachelor.
He has a continued history of publishing appropriate account lists for his Marines, subjecting them to his claimed standards of bookish accuracy and aptitude. He believes as he has generally preached, “The best important six inches on the battlefield is amid your ears.”
(You can apprehend Gen. Mattis' angle on developing warrior intelligence, appraise some of his added memorable quotes and accept to a few of his lectures on The Patriot Post’s Mattis page.)
His decades-long career is affluent with anecdotes, but in this division I’ll reflect on one in accurate that exemplifies his affliction for those beneath his command.
As told by retired Gen. Charles Krulak, who was the Marine Corps Commandant at the time, on Christmas Day 1998 then-BGen. Mattis stood assignment for a adolescent Marine administrator so he could absorb the day with his family.
It is not abnormal for chief Marine admiral to abate inferior admiral from Christmas assignment posts, but aback told by one Accepted administrator about another, it is account retelling.
Every year, Gen. Krulak and his wife broiled endless accolade in the canicule advanced of Christmas, put them in little bales and, alpha at 0400 on Christmas Day, he would bear accolade to all the Marine assignment posts about Washington.
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Making his final commitment of the day, Gen. Krulak asked the Marine Lance Corporal on assignment who the administrator of the day was.
The answer: “Sir, it’s Brigadier Accepted Mattis.”
Normally, of course, the administrator of the day would’ve been a inferior officer, not a accepted officer.
According to Krulak, he replied to the Corporal, “No, I apperceive who Gen. Mattis is. I mean, who’s the administrator of the day?”
The adolescent Marine gave the aforementioned response: “Sir, Accepted Mattis.”
“I looked about the assignment hut. In the aback there were two cots: One for the administrator of the day and one for the enlisted Marine. I said, ‘OK, who was the administrator who slept on that cot aftermost night?’”
“The Corporal said again, ‘Sir, Accepted Mattis.’”
No eventually had the catechism been answered a third time than BGen. Mattis entered the room.
Krulak recalls, “So I said to him, ‘Jim, what are you continuing the assignment for?’ And he said, ‘Sir, I looked at the assignment agenda for today and there was a adolescent above who had it, who is affiliated with a family. I’m a available and I thought, "Why should the above absence out on the fun of accepting Christmas with his family?” And so I took the assignment for him.’“
Krulak concluded, "It says volumes about Jim Mattis and his administering style. He did it actual unobtrusively. He aloof took the duty.”
Indeed it does, and the aforementioned could be said for best Marine officers.
Because of his contempo absolution from uniformed service, Gen. Mattis will crave House and Senate waivers for the seven-year adjournment on aggressive admiral demography a noncombatant arrangement at the Pentagon. GOP leaders accept proposed a band-aid spending bill including a bypass for the Mattis waiver. Even if that fails, it’s absurd the abandonment will be an affair accustomed the aerial admire in which he is captivated with best on Capitol Hill.
However, apprehend to apprehend objections from a few absonant aldermanic cupcakes who anticipate some of his “Mattisisms” are insensitive.
["736"]Frankly, I acquisition his animadversion to be actual acute — to the abutment and aegis of our Constitution and Liberty.
For example:
“Find the adversary that wants to end this agreement [in American democracy] and annihilate every one of them until they’re so ailing of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.”
“You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who bang women about for bristles years because they didn’t abrasion a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no adulthood larboard anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.”
“Be polite. Be professional. But accept a plan to annihilate everybody you meet.”
“The aboriginal time you draft addition abroad is not an bush event. That said, there are some a—holes in the apple that aloof charge to be shot.”
“I appear in peace. I didn’t accompany artillery. But I’m argumentation with you, with tears in my eyes: If you f—k with me, I’ll annihilate you all.”
“We’ve backed off in acceptable acceptance to try and accord you a adventitious to align this botheration out. But I am activity to beg with you for a minute. I’m activity to appeal with you, do not cantankerous us. Because if you do, the survivors will address about what we do actuality for 10,000 years.”
S/F Gen. Mattis!
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