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" Gen. Mattis is a warrior. What I appreciate about Gen. Mattis is he understands the principle that if you go to war, you go to war to win. "

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" I could literally go on for pages upon pages about Mattis and how influential this man was to me and many others who fought alongside him. "

" Nicknamed 'Mad-Dog Mattis' by his men, he was a command warrior in the old George Patton mode. He wasn't an armchair general by any definition of that much-maligned term. If a Marine re-upped at a location where he was present, he would personally go to that Marine and thank him or her for rejoining. "

" I've served in 25 nations. I've seen where people don't trust their government. We're there. In the military, the last option is to send in the SEALs. "

" You cannot negotiate with organizations that are based on an ideology whose core is to destroy the West and America. "

" The Sunnis no longer recognize the centralized government as a legitimate power. The Shia militia that is moving around is calling out war crimes that are anti-Sunni. So, the Sunnis are in a tough spot. Do they move to an ISIS, which is a radical Islamic terrorist organization? Or do they defend themselves? Or do they give up? "