Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis lashed Joe Biden in a NPR interview for fueling the rise of ISIS by insisting on the total withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq.
Said Mattis: “You may want a war over. You may declare it over. You may even try to walk away from it. But the bottom line is the enemy gets a vote, as we say in the military, and we simply have got to understand that terrorism is going to be an ambient threat.”
He writes in his new book that Biden was “indifferent” to the consequences of complete withdrawal: “He wanted our forces out of Iraq. Whatever path led there fastest, he favored. He exuded the confidence of a man whose mind was made up, perhaps even indifferent to considering the consequences were he judging the situation incorrectly.”
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