'I did as well as I could for as long as I could.' James Mattis offers deeply personal look inside his decision to serve and later resign as Defense secretary—and warns against the current state of U.S. politics.
Mattis, a retired Marine Corps four-star general, served as President Donald Trump's first defense secretary but resigned in December over policy differences.
"Unlike in the past, where we were unified and drew in allies, currently our own commons seems to be breaking apart," Mattis wrote."What concerns me most as a military man is not our external adversaries," he wrote."It is our internal divisiveness. We are dividing into hostile tribes cheering against each other, fueled by emotion and a mutual disdain that jeopardizes our future, instead of rediscovering our common ground and finding solutions.
Mattis said he was shocked when he received a call from Vice President-elect Mike Pence in November 2016 asking if he would meet with Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey, to discuss the defense secretary job. After his meeting with then president-elect, Mattis wrote,"I figured that my strong support of NATO and my dismissal of the use of torture on prisoners would have the president-elect looking for another candidate."
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