“You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap around women for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway, so it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.”
General James Mattis
“You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap around women for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway, so it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.”
General James Mattis
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July 9th, 2010 at 3:25PM
You’ll be glad to know that Gen Mattis hates PowerPoint(“P/P makes us stupid”)
An interesting profile of the general here.
July 9th, 2010 at 11:15PM
Thank you for the link to the profile, David.
“Gen. Mattis is a remarkably learned and thoughtful man who adheres to the old-fashioned Christian, chivalric warrior code.”
I was forming a different impression, but the quoted text has the confident sheen of truth, if also the solid clunk of cliché.