Jan. 31, 2018 - Brother Nathanael
03:41
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| There's a new dog on the block who's wagging the tail of President Trump. | |
| It's Mad Dog Mattis who might as well treat his doghouse at Trump's White House seat. | |
| And now out of the wild blue yonder, Mattis says the war on terror is over. | |
| That's great. But wait, Mad Dog's looking for a bigger fish to fry. | |
| There is a major change in U.S. military strategy. | |
| Today, more than 16 years after the 9-11 attacks, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said terrorism is no longer the number one priority. | |
| David Martin has more on what is. | |
| China and Russia have replaced terrorism as the primary focus of the new national defense strategy. | |
| Maintaining a military advantage over China and Russia is now Defense Secretary Mattis' top priority. | |
| Get it? Killing towel heads in the desert bores the dog to death. | |
| But full-scale planetary nuclear war? | |
| Now that's a lit-up theater that will glow in the dark. | |
| The world, to quote George Shultz, is awash in change, defined by increasing global volatility and uncertainty with great power competition between nations becoming a reality once again. | |
| We will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists that we're engaged in today, but great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of U.S. national security. | |
| Looks to me like his defense strategy is a little short on defense, but way long on offense. | |
| Of course, the dog has no friends or family. | |
| All he thinks about all day is killing people. | |
| Defense is a drag, but going after the prey makes that dog's day. | |
| Somebody put this dog on a leash. | |
| We face growing threats from revisionist powers as different as China and Russia are from each other. | |
| Nations that do seek to create a world consistent with their authoritarian models, pursuing veto authority over other nations' economic, diplomatic, and security decisions. | |
| Come on. That authoritarian model squats at the Pentagon and breeds dogs of war that tramps all over civilian rule. | |
| Mattis has his paymasters to please, the Fed that cuts his checks, and the neocons that goad him on. | |
| It's a bark mitzvah where only the goids die young. | |
| The paradox of war is that an enemy will attack any perceived weakness. | |
| So we in America cannot adopt a single, preclusive form of warfare. | |
| Rather, we must be able to fight across the spectrum of conflict. | |
| This means that the size and the composition of our force matters. | |
| The nation must field sufficient capable forces to deter conflict. | |
| And if deterrence fails, we must win. | |
| Who's messing with us? | |
| Who would ever want to? | |
| We've got enough deterrence to give the world peace for 2,000 years. | |
| But we've got a dog off his leash. | |
| It's a prescription for World War III. How do we win a war with a nuked-up Russia and China? | |
| It's Apocalypse Now! | |
| Where career killers and coucher neocons get their kicks. | |
| Thanks. | |
| Let sleeping dogs lie. |
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