{"id":390205,"date":"2018-12-23T01:33:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T00:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-resignation-of-general-mattis-and-americas-crisis-of-class-rule\/"},"modified":"2018-12-23T01:33:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T00:33:41","slug":"the-resignation-of-general-mattis-and-americas-crisis-of-class-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-resignation-of-general-mattis-and-americas-crisis-of-class-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"The resignation of General Mattis and America\u2019s crisis of class rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>The resignation of General Mattis and America\u2019s crisis of class rule<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    22 December 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s resignation of US Defense Secretary James Mattis has provoked a reaction of panic and near hysteria from leading members of both major political parties, the media and former top military and intelligence officials.<\/p>\n<p>Mattis, a former four-star Marine Corps general, made his resignation announcement in a letter that represented an open rebuke of President Donald Trump\u2019s policies, essentially accusing him of failing to support the US alliances established by Washington in the post-World War II era or sufficiently counter \u201cmalign actors and strategic competitors,\u201d i.e., China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Before making the letter public, Mattis reportedly had 50 copies printed and distributed to top brass within the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate trigger for the resignation was Trump\u2019s order, made public Wednesday, to withdraw all 2,000-plus US troops from Syria and his reported decision to draw down at least half\u2014approximately 7,000 soldiers\u2014of the US forces still waging a more than 17-year-long war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had campaigned in 2016 on his \u201cAmerica First\u201d program, calling for an end to the protracted US wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. This rhetoric played a substantial role in winning the billionaire real estate speculator popular support against his presidential rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton, the favored candidate of Wall Street and the CIA, whose career was bound up with past US wars and advanced preparations for an escalation of the Syria intervention as well as a direct confrontation with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s decision to act on these campaign pledges now are bound up with the deepening crisis of his presidency, which is besieged by multiple scandals and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/12\/22\/pers-d22.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The resignation of General Mattis and America\u2019s crisis of class rule 22 December 2018 Thursday\u2019s resignation of US Defense Secretary James Mattis has provoked a reaction of panic and near hysteria from leading members of both major political parties, the media and former top military and intelligence officials. Mattis, a former four-star Marine Corps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}