Mattis Urging Biden to Scrap Trump's 'America First' Defense Plan
Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is calling on Joe Biden to dump President Donald Trump's "America First" defense strategy.In a commentary written by Mattis and three others posted in Foreign Affairs, they warned "the world is not getting safer, for the United States or...
James Mattis calls on Joe Biden to eliminate 'America first' from U.S. foreign policy
Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis has called on Democrat Joe Biden, the presumptive president-elect, to eliminate “America first” from the nation's foreign policy.Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general, joined the Trump administration in 2017, four years after he was relieved of his duties as the head of Central Command by then-President Barack Obama in 2013.He announced he would exit the Trump administration in December 2018 after the pr…
In spiking the football after Biden's victory, Mattis makes it clear that “cooperating with like-minded nations” means putting their interests before our own.
