MAD DOG MATTIS: THE OPED HE WROTE.

ICHEOKU says he would have continued to maintain his silence and not fallen to the pecuniary temptation to "straighten" out his time with the president as his Pentagon chief. Nobody in Team MAGA really cares to know nor gives a hoot damn about whatever ego tripping that forced him to quit his job or was he even fired by the president. 

His, would have been a case where silence was golden; but suddenly and by talking, General James Norman 'Mad Dog' Mattis has demystified himself and peeled off the veneer of a hardcore, hard charging Marine General who does not kiss and tell nor rat. By talking, he would evaporate the aura and myth of Mad Dog Mattis and will henceforth be treated as another hack partisan retired general; and one who qualified as a disgruntled former hire who is mad at his former boss and wants to rat him out. 

Team MAGA loves Mad Dog Mattis but will not allow him to denigrate the leader, no matter what. General Mattis was the defense secretary and not the commander in chief; and whatever account he wants to give about a reversal of roles which he sought and desired, where he commanded and the president obeyed, will not be tolerated or go unanswered or unresponded to. He should not forget that he was only an adviser to the president on military matters and not the formulator of government policies on military use and how the commander in chief deploys them. 

General Mattis should also know that the president was not bound to accept or agree to all his advises or kowtow to all the dictates he wanted or desired. Their respective functions were clearly defined enough to be understood without any fog of doubt or needless equivocation. That only one man won his elected position as president of the United States of America and Commander in Chief of its Armed Forces; and that man appointed General Mattis as his Defense Secretary. That General Mattis served at the president's pleasure and not the other round. Finally, that General Mattis did the right thing when he quit his job because he did not want to obey and carry out the president' and commander in chief's decisions. So, instead of a continuing insubordination, the General resigned. 

This much is what the American people understands and wants to know and the General should and is expected to rest his case there, period. But any attempt to grandstand or try to re-explain what people do not care a hoot about, will be demeaning his standing in the eyes of the American public and creating room for people to start dismissing him as a petulant. He came, he saw, but he failed to conquer the president's objectives at the Pentagon; and it was good that he left based on his principles. So, yes, that he couldn't or rather failed to do his job and resigned as a result is acceptable; but it is not acceptable for him to burden the American people with the reasons he couldn't do his job. It is also instructive to note that it was not the president's fault that General Mattis failed in his assignment at the Pentagon. 

Therefore, to continue to maintain his honor, dignity and respect, General James Norman 'Mad Dog' Mattis must not turn himself into a Trump hating barking Mad Dog; especially now with the current infestation in the land of the maniacally possessed anti Trump and Trump haters who are helplessly hollering and yapping without ceasing. To not heed to this advise will be branding himself one of them and like the many before him, he too will be similarly yoked in the desert of irrelevant noise makers, who are disturbing the peace of a duly elected American president and leader of Team MAGA. Nobody ever survives the wrath of Team MAGA and the odium of such stamp of dishonor. General Mattis have earned his right to have his honor in tact, as a well respected retired American Marine General and should not do violence to it. But we shall see.