You make a really good point - because Mattis would just phone Trump up and tell him he's an idiot.
The point about what Trump is thinking and his end game is, indeed, frightening. What makes it worse is that even Trump Lemmings in this thread don't see the horrific danger to our country.
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Posse Comitatus. Fucking look it up. Ignorance is NOT bliss.