Desperate to prevent the presence of Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at the same upcoming summit meeting, British and U.S. national media and Democratic politicians continued on Sunday to go wild over the New York Times’ unsourced, can’t-confirm-it story of Russia paying bounties to Taliban fighters who kill American soldiers. Or possibly trying to — no American soldiers were killed by Taliban fighters during the period claimed. This was enough for one recent CIA and DoD official to call openly for war with Russia, now.
Not surprisingly the official who would take us back to the Cuban Missiles Crisis of 1962 is a Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis guy, Michael Patrick “Mick” Mulroy. Multory was Mattis’ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense 2017-19 and is now an ABC News “commentator” since Trump fired Mattis for refusing to take any U.S. troops out of Syria. Said Mulroy to ABC: “Russia is an enemy of the United States. We identify them as such in our national security strategy, but treat them as if they are allies. Why else would we be pushing to include a country in the G7 that invaded another country and is now killing [sic] our soldiers?” We do not want a war with Russia and we do not want to start killing each other’s soldiers, but there are some actions you can’t accept. If we have solid evidence that this is being done and our forces are being killed [sic], the gloves should be hitting the floor.”
The fact that Mulroy did not call on India to “let gloves hit the floor” and go to all-out, potentially nuclear war with China, was probably due to lack of time in his ABC News segment. Readers may judge: Is it a bad thing, or a good thing that President Trump fired “Mad Dog” Mattis and — along with the French President and German Chancellor — wants Putin to participate in a G7 summit this Fall?
