I'm just surprised that Mattis didn't quit sooner.
@malice there was supposedly a pact between the 3 actual adults in the admin to not leave the president unsupervised...he was the last one left...so...that's not great...
@opie Mattis is a public servant in the truest sense of the term. I always believed he stuck it out not because he supported Trump, but because he wanted to do his duty for the nation and he had a chance to maker a difference there.
Obviously he decided he had no chance.
@malice word on the street...and sort of explicitly in his letter...is that the withdrawal from Syria was the last straw for him...cuz I' assuming he vehemently opposed the move and the president ignored him, so I can see why he'd just say fuck it
@malice well...one day it was "we defeated them" and the next it was "they're not our problem, let russia deal with em"